The Subterraneans

Author: Jack Kerouac; Ann Douglas (Introduction by)

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  • : $29.99 AUD
  • : 9780141184890
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
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  • : September 2007
  • : 197mm X 129mm X 13mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : Jack Kerouac; Ann Douglas (Introduction by)
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  • : Modern fiction
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Description

Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac's early classic, On The Road. Centering on the tempestous breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox--two denizens of the 1950s San Francsico underground--The Subterraneans is a tale of dark alleys and dark rooms, of artists, of visionaries,

Author description

Jack Kerouac wrote a number of highly influential and popular novels - most famously the international best-seller 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.