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Desolation Angels (Paperback)

by Jack Kerouac (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 409 pages
  • Publisher: G P Putnam's Sons; 1st Riverhead Ed edition (Sep 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1573225053
  • ISBN-13: 978-1573225052
  • Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.1 x 2.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 704,996 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars A combination of Others, 18 Oct 2004
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This One kind of disappointed me, It really seemed like Kerouac was just throwing together bits from his other work and kinda lacked the originality of, say, the Dharma Bums. The first section basically goes over his time on desolation peak, as told in the Dharma Bums and again in the Lonesome Traveller, Its really getting boring the third time around. The middle section, around page 150ish to 280 i think, focuses, much like the subterraneans on the social aspect of his life in San Fransico and New York, it's nice but again lacks the excitement of similar phases in On The Road or The Dharma Bums. The last third of the book is better, detailing his trip to Mexico and then Tangiers with Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Ginsberg. Almost in the vein of the last half of the Lonesome Traveller. Overall this one seemed a tired and almost melancholy work, still good,but I'd really heard it all before.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Kerouac's Mountain Solitude, 11 May 2005
This review is from: Desolation Angels (Paladin Books) (Paperback)
Many will know Jack Kerouac as the author of 'On The Road' : a relentless record of his cross-country wanderings in the late 1940s. However, he published many more semi-autobiographical novels and this is one of the best.
It chronicles his time as a mountain fire-lookout in the 1950s, and describes his reflections on his solitude. Kerouac without booze and pills is the result and he tries to face up to his own life, before returning 'down to the world.'
There are some beautiful evocations of the wilderness, some heart-rending references to his inability to deal with the contents of his head, and the all-pervading presesence of Hozomeen, the mountain he faces each morning.
A must-read book for people interested in the true spirit of Kerouac, and one in the eye for people who tell you he was a one-dimensional misogynist.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Let Kerouac wash away all the dreariness to..., 10 May 2004
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Experience the storm. Live through the hell. A novel full of friends, a novel of experience, of life. This book is an epic tragedy of the everyday; each little nuance of humanity expilicitly depicted. Heroism on a modest scale and normality on a heroic scale.

Kerouac was a genius who wrote of every friendship and of every last experience that they become so familair as a Spring sunset. Leave the mundane behind and follow a journey to Mexico, to Tangier, across America and revel in the earth and the people, our friends who connect this story together.

It is a novel that can be read at the saddest of times to remind one that there is beauty; it can be read at the happiest of times to remind that life is suffering and that we're all just passing thorugh.

So Kerouac was a complex genius of you and I who wrote what he obsevered and experienced. So buy this book and feel inspired, and more as one, and less alone.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Religion and the beats colide
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