Lonesome Traveler
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From the acclaimed Beat writer, Jack Kerouac’s unique collection of personal travel writing, now reissued following his centenary celebration In his first directly autobiographical book, Jack Kerouac relates the exhilarating stories of the years he spent restlessly traveling and writing his acclaimed novels. He journeys from the California deserts crisscrossed by train tracks to the bullfights of Mexico to the Beat nightlife of New York City, and across the Atlantic to Paris, Morocco, and London. With echoes of landscapes that appear in his other novels, including The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels, and featuring his distinctive exuberant style and “jazzy impressionistic prose” (New Yorker), Lonesome Traveler is a unique addition to Kerouac’s body of work. Show Additional Fields
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Most of the stories here are some of his best. As usual, it is not easy to get through his writing. But it doesn't take long to run into a literary gold, over and over again. It was only the Mexico Fellaheen story that I did not enjoy, it was difficult to spend time on, and led me to dropping the book, picking it up again only months later, pushing with effort through to the end of that story. Obviously a worthy effort, as the next ones were astounding. Kerouac's writing is pure, effortless jazz.
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