Desolation Angels

Author: Jack Kerouac
Desolation Angels, published in 1965, yet written years earlier around the time On the Road was in the process of publication, is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, which makes up part of his Duluoz Legend. According to the book’s foreword, the opening section of the novel is almost directly taken from the journal he kept when he….Read More
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