Lonesome Traveller

Name: Lonesome Traveller
Brand: Goldsboro Books
SKU: kerouac
Price: 95.0 GBP
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Lonesome Traveller

by Jack Kerouac

Publisher Andre Deutsch

Genre: General Fiction

Publication date: January 1, 1962

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About the book

A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discovery.

As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; catching up with the beat nightlife in New York; burying himself in the snow-capped mountains of north-west America; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers; or falling in love with Montmartre and the huge white basilica of Sacré-Coeur - Kerouac reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment.

About the Author

Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouacwas born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called 'spontaneous prose'. He used this technique to record the life of the American 'traveler' and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably inOn the Roadand also inThe SubterraneansandThe Dharma Bums.His other works includeBig Sur, Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa, and a book of poetry calledMexico City Blues. Jack Kerouac died in 1969.

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