Lonesome Traveler

by Jack Kerouac

Overview

In his first frankly autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac tells the exhilarating story fo the years when he was writing th books that captivated and infuriated the public, restless years of wandering during which he worked as a railway brakeman in California, a steward on a tramp steamer, and a fire lookout on the crest of Desolation Peak in the Cascde Mountains.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802195708
Publisher:	Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication date:	12/01/2007
Series:	Kerouac, Jack
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	864 KB

About the Author

JACK KEROUAC was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922. He won a scholarship to Columbia University, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. On the Road, published in 1957, epitomized to the world what became known as the “Beat generation” and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and Big Sur. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969.

What People are Saying About This

Allen Ginsberg

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

Editorial Reviews

"Kerouac's nerve-ends vs. the universe, [with] flashes of poetry, truth, daffiness."

New York Times Book Review

"...jazzy impressionistic prose."

The New Yorker

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

John Clellon Holmes

Full of startling and beautiful things…One sees, hears, and feels.”

Sunday Times (London)

Incredible, animal word-energy…Kerouac appears as a T. E. Lawrence of the five senses.”

New York Times

Praise for Lonesome Traveler

“An incredible, animal word-energy . . . For those millions of Americans sitting in their nervous Eames chairs wasting away with eternal boredom, Kerouac appears as a T.E. Lawrence of the five senses.”—New York Times

“Full of startling and beautiful things . . . One sees, hears and feels.”—Sunday Times

“Kerouac’s work is one of the most extraordinary, influential, maddening, and ultimately prodigious achievements in recent literature.”—John Clellon Holmes

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