Doctor Sax

by Jack Kerouac

Overview

In this haunting novel of intensely felt adolescence, Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up, as Kerouac himself did, in the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. Dr. Sax, with his flowing cape, slouch hat, and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons that populate Jack’s fantasy world. Deftly mingling memory and dream, Kerouac captures the accents and texture of his boyhood in Lowell as he relates Jack’s adventures with this cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802130495
Publisher:	Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication date:	01/13/1994
Series:	Kerouac, Jack
Pages:	245
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kerouac was discharged from the navy with a personality problem, where he had served as a merchant seaman. His first novel was The Town and the City (1950).

What People are Saying About This

John Clellon Holmes

Kerouac's work is one of the most extraordinary, influential, maddening, and ultimately prodigious achievements in recent literature.

Allen Ginsberg

Jack Kerouac, new Buddha of American prose, who spit forth intelligence...a spontaneous bop prosody and original classic literature.

Editorial Reviews

Kerouac's peculiar genius infects every page.

New York Times Book Review

Duluoz is exuberantly profane and comfortably delinquent…Full of pinball prose, Doctor Sax is an elegy to the warm, safe smells of a tenement kitchen and the dark mysteries of a city neighborhood. It is Kerouac’s best book.”

Time

Kerouac’s peculiar genius infects every page.”

New York Times

Kerouac dreams of America in the authentic rolling rhythms of a Whitman or a Thomas Wolfe, drunk with eagerness for life.”

New York Herald Tribune

Spooky and tender with stretches of sheer phosphorescent fantasy, Doctor Sax has a vigor and thirst for life. A real prize, one of the lost gems of modern literature.”

Rolling Stone

Vivid, moving, and funny.”

The Guardian (London)

Praise for Dr. Sax

“Kerouac’s best book.”—TIME

“Spooky and tender with stretches of sheer phosphorescent fantasy, Dr. Sax has a vigor and a thirst for life . . . One of the gems of modern literature.”—Rolling Stone

“Kerouac’s peculiar genius infects every page.”—New York Times

“Outlandish and visionary, it remains a powerful evocation of the exuberant iconoclasm of the Beat Generation.”—The Guardian

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