by Jack Kerouac
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by Jack Kerouac
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by Jack Kerouac
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by Jack Kerouac
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by Jack Kerouac
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'One of the most true, comic and grizzly journeys in American literature.' Time 'The Beats drug, hop freight trains, live on the road and contemplate Buddha. A nerve-jangling, sometimes sentimental, always sincere and funny book.' Sunday Times 'A beatific glow turns Ginsberg into a great poet, not a hairy rhymester selling his Vaseline jars as fake holly relics. Burroughs becomes an all-American folk hero, swinging and swaggering down the Calle Larache, rebuking his companions for walking too slow. All in a prose-poetry out of Whitman and Wolfe and Dylan Thomas.' Observer
Set on a mountaintop this is the author's diary of a lonely summer spent firewatching. His subsequent descent into modern American records the beginning of the feeling of futility and religious anguish that dominated the last years of his life. (Kirkus UK)
Kerouac's Desolation Angels may be dealt with quickly. It's a long prose-poem in the form of a memoir-novel, in which the author (calling himself, as he's done elsewhere, Jack Duluoz) explores three phases of his life: the Zen-seeker bit (camping out on mountain tops, awaiting the joyful-sorrowful illumination); then the Frisco-New York prelude to fame; finally the after-effects of being immortalized by the Luce publications and further dizzy-dim wanderings through North Africa, Europe and America. There are Heideggerian sub-titles (Desolation in Solitude, Desolation in the World), lots of vaudeville lyricism ("I'm gonna take it all in. Incredible the things I saw"), any number of atmospheric underlinings ("...it's a jazz-joint and beat generation madtrick"), and one frenetic, funny, free-associational scene after another. Its impact (and best-seller possibilities) lie elsewhere, however, for here Kerouac spills the beans about the sex life, psychological hang-ups, and publicity maneuverings of himself, Ginsberg, Corso, Burroughs and Peter Orlovsky. Angels is lit up with the glare of "scandal" and, in its exposure of the above members of the avant-beatnik world, may well wing its way to the wide audience the publisher anticipates. (Kirkus Reviews)
Set on a mountaintop this is the author's diary of a lonely summer spent firewatching. His subsequent descent into modern American records the beginning of the feeling of futility and religious anguish that dominated the last years of his life. (Kirkus UK)
Kerouac's Desolation Angels may be dealt with quickly. It's a long prose-poem in the form of a memoir-novel, in which the author (calling himself, as he's done elsewhere, Jack Duluoz) explores three phases of his life: the Zen-seeker bit (camping out on mountain tops, awaiting the joyful-sorrowful illumination); then the Frisco-New York prelude to fame; finally the after-effects of being immortalized by the Luce publications and further dizzy-dim wanderings through North Africa, Europe and America. There are Heideggerian sub-titles (Desolation in Solitude, Desolation in the World), lots of vaudeville lyricism ("I'm gonna take it all in. Incredible the things I saw"), any number of atmospheric underlinings ("...it's a jazz-joint and beat generation madtrick"), and one frenetic, funny, free-associational scene after another. Its impact (and best-seller possibilities) lie elsewhere, however, for here Kerouac spills the beans about the sex life, psychological hang-ups, and publicity maneuverings of himself, Ginsberg, Corso, Burroughs and Peter Orlovsky. Angels is lit up with the glare of "scandal" and, in its exposure of the above members of the avant-beatnik world, may well wing its way to the wide audience the publisher anticipates. (Kirkus Reviews)
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Kerouac's candid and definitive insider's record of the key figures and events surrounding the Beat Generation, Desolation Angels had gained a reputation as an underground classic long before publication in 1964. Told through the character of Kerouac's fictional alter ego, Jack Duluoz, the novel follows the story of his last legendary road trip, accompanied by his thinly-disguised Beat counterparts, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs. From California to Mexico and on to opium-ridden Tangiers, Kerouac chronicles the frenetic parties, the drink and the drugs, the poetry and the mountain vigils with unsurpassable energy.
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