Lonesome Traveler

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Lonesome Traveler
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Jack Kerouac
SeriesGreat Kerouac
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:160
Dimensions(mm): Height 181,Width 111
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Travel writing
ISBN/Barcode 9780241348079
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication Date 2 August 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

An exhilarating compilation of journal entries about Jack Kerouac's travels, now in A-format As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records life on the road in prose of pure poetry. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers or falling in love with Montmartre - Kerouac reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own particular philosophy of self-fulfillment.

Author Biography

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called 'spontaneous prose'. He used this technique to record the life of the American 'traveler' and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably in On the Road and also in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His other works include Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa, and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues. Jack Kerouac died in 1969.