Desolation Angels

Author: Jack Kerouac

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Price : 22.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780141198262
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited
Imprint : Penguin Books, Limited
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Weight (g) : 0.281
Publication date : 01 March 2012
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 22mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 22.99
Availability date : 30 June 2012
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Product Type : books

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Author : Jack Kerouac
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 812
Pages : 384
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"Desolation Angels" is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of "On the Road", told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his thinly-disguised Beat cohorts Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs. As they hitch, hop freight trains, walk and talk their way across the world, from California to Mexico, London to Paris and on to opium-ridden Tangiers, Kerouac chronicles their poetry, partying, mountain vigils and spiritual contemplation with unsurpassable energy and humanity.

Reviews

Nerve-jangling, sentimental, sincere and funny Sunday Times One of the most true, comic and grizzly journeys in American literature Time