Time
One of the most true, comic, and grizzly journeys in American literature.”
The Atlantic Dan Wakefield
If the Pulitzer Prize were given for the book that is most representative of American life, I would nominate Desolation Angels.”
National Book Award winner and New York Times best Nelson Algren
Desolation Angels explains perhaps even better than the other Kerouac novels what the place of religion may have been in the Beat mystique.”
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"If the Pulitzer Prize were given for the book that is most representative of American life, I would nominate Desolation Angels."
—Dan Wakefield, The Atlantic
"One of the most true, comic, and grizzly journeys in American literature."
—Time
"Kerouac was a breath of fresh air when he came on the literary scene. He was also a force, a tragedy, a triumph, and an ongoing influence, and that influence is still with us."
—Norman Mailer
"Kerouac ... defines the sensibilites of members of his own subgeneration: we knew them as wearing such guises as the Beat Generation, the Subterraneans, the Dharma Bums; now we see them as Desolation Angels, sadly pursuing their empty futilities..."
—Nelson Algren
"Each book by Kerouac is unique, a telepathic discord. Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later 20th century, a synthesis of Proust, Celine, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Genet, Thelonius Monk, Basho, Charlie Parker and Kerouac's own athletic sacred insight. Jack Kerouac was a 'writer' as his great peer William S. Burroughs says."
—Allen Ginsberg
Time
One of the most true, comic, and grizzly journeys in American literature.”