The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac Paperback Book

Description: The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac, Ann Douglas The Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living amongst them is Leo, an aspiring writer, and Mardou, half-Indian, half-Negro, beautiful and neurotic. Their bitter-sweet and ill-starred love affair sees Kerouac at his most evocative. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description One of Kerouacs most enduring and touching worksThe Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living amongst them is Leo, an aspiring writer, and Mardou, half-Indian, half-Negro, beautiful and neurotic. Their bittersweet and ill-starred love affair sees Kerouac at his most evocative. Many regard this as being Kerouacs most touching and tender book. Author Biography Jack Kerouac wrote a number of highly influential and popular novels - most famously the international bestseller On the Road - and is remembered as one of the key figures of the legendary Beat generation. As much as anything, he came to represent a philosophy, a way of life. Jack Kerouac died in 1969. Kirkus US Review ..... live in the alleys of San Francisco- smoking tea- and talking of Wolfe and Baudelaire and Pound and peote- and listening to bop. And this is the Joycean and/or junk-induced free-for-all recall of one of them, an "unself-confident egomaniac" Leo Percepied (Canuck) and his involvement with the Negro (part Cherokee) Mardou Fox whose "glittering glee eyes" reveal that shed flipped and is still under therapy but whose warm brown body and feet "in thongs of sandals of such sexuality- looking-greatness" make him want to make her, which he does, so that he drinks less and stops writing altogether until he loses her when he goes on to writing this which in all the giddy gratification and laceration of words in also foully phallic and probably as good an example of how far you can go in print without the benefit of punctuation let alone taste. (Kirkus Reviews) Details ISBN0141184892 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2001 ISBN-10 0141184892 ISBN-13 9780141184890 Format Paperback Publication Date 2001-03-01 Imprint Penguin Classics Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.54 Author Ann Douglas Media Book Birth 1922 Death 1969 Short Title SUBTERRANEANS & PIC Residence Lowell, MA, US Series Penguin Modern Classics Pages 112 UK Release Date 2001-03-01 Audience General NZ Release Date 2020-02-05 AU Release Date 2020-02-05 Alternative 9780141912837 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:1083176;

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