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Subterraneans

by Jack Kerouac

Grove Press

Paperback/Fiction 240 pages English Nov 15, 2022

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From the most famous of the Beat writers and the author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Kerouac's intoxicating love story of two young bohemians, now reissued in the centenary year of his birthWritten over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same kind of ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac's early classics, On the Road. Centering around the tempestuous romance and breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox--two denizens of the 1950s San Francisco underground--The Subterraneans is a tale of dark alleys and smoky rooms, of artists, visionaries, and adventurers existing outside mainstream America's field of vision. Loosely based on Kerouac's own life, and peopled with analogues of real-life friends, including William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, and Neal Cassady, The Subterraneans is a vivid and breathless masterwork of Beat literature.
Author:
Jack Kerouac
Publisher:
Grove Press
Publication Date:
Nov 15, 2022
Number of pages:
240 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback/Fiction
ISBN-10:
080216028X
ISBN-13:
9780802160287