Dr. Sax
Author: Jack Kerouac
“Kerouac dreams of America in the authentic rolling rhythms of a Whitman or a Thomas Wolfe, drunk with eagerness for life.”—John K. Hutchens….Read More
11 Books Similar to Dr. Sax
Visions of Cody
This is a celebration of the life of Neal Cassady, the author's friend and inspiration. The son of a Denver drop-out, brought up homeless and motherless during the Depression, Cassady… Continue Reading Posted in: Beat Generation, English Fiction, United States
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
More than sixty years ago, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac sat down in New York City to write a novel about the summer of 1944, when one of their… Continue Reading Posted in: Beat Generation, Beat Generation Criticism, Friendship, Murder Thrillers
In Watermelon Sugar
iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, United States
The Town and the City
It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go' - Kerouac on "The Town and the City". Kerouac's debut novel is a great coming of… Continue Reading Posted in: Bildungsromane, Fiction, Illustrated Wrappers (Book Covers) England 2000
Queer
Escrita en 1952 pero no publicada hasta 1985 debido a su franca plasmación del deseo homosexual, "Queer", obra temprana de William S. Burroughs, es al mismo tiempo un descarnado autorretrato… Continue Reading Posted in: American Writers, Autobiographical Fiction, Fiction In English
Desolation Angels
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… Continue Reading Posted in: American Writers, Biography, Contemporary Literature & Fiction
The Subterraneans
Jack Kerouac, one of the great voices of the Beat generation and author of the classic On the Road, here continues his peregrinations in postwar, underground San Francisco. "The subterraneans"… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Fiction, Lifestyles
Lonesome Traveler
As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Jack Kerouac breathlessly records, in prose of pure poetry, the life of the road. Standing on the engine of a… Continue Reading Posted in: Beat Generation, Classic Literature & Fiction, Description And Travel, Medieval Thought Philosophy, Poetry
Big Sur
"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntatic elaboration, detailing the… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Memoirs, United States
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