Bibliograph

Road novels 1957-1960, Jack Kerouac ; [edited by Douglas Brinkley]

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Road novels 1957-1960, Jack Kerouac ; [edited by Douglas Brinkley]

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Road novels 1957-1960

Oclc number

144228447

Responsibility statement

Jack Kerouac ; [edited by Douglas Brinkley]

Series statement

Library of America, 174

Summary

To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Kerouac's landmark novel, The Library of America collects On the Road together with four other autobiographical "road books" published in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The Dharma Bums(1958), at once an exploration of Buddhist spirituality and an account of the Bay Area poetry scene, is notable for its thinly veiled portraits of Kerouac's acquaintances, including Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Kenneth RexrothThe Subterraneans(1958) recounts a love affair set amid the bars and bohemian haunts of San Francisco. Tristessa(1960) is a melancholy novella describing a relationship with a prostitute in Mexico City. Lonesome Traveler (1960) collects travel essays that evoke journeys in Mexico and Europe, and concludes with an elegiac lament for the lost world of the American hobo. Also included in Road Novels are selections from Kerouac's journal

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