An edition of Desolation angels (1965)

Desolation angels

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An edition of Desolation angels (1965)

Desolation angels

1st Riverhead ed.

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Desolation Angels is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, which makes up part of his Duluoz Legend. It was published in 1965, but was written years earlier, around the time On the Road was in the process of publication. According to the book's foreword, the opening section of the novel is taken almost directly from the journal he kept when he was a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade mountains of Washington state. Much of the psychological struggle which the novel's protagonist, Jack Duluoz, undergoes in the novel reflects Kerouac's own increasing disenchantment with the Buddhist philosophy with which he had previously been fascinated.

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Riverhead Books
Language
English
Pages
409

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Subjects
Beat generation, Fiction, Beats (Persons), American literature, American fiction (fictional works by one author)

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1995, Riverhead Books
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1978, Putnam
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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3521.E735 D46 1995, PS3521.E735D46 1995

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Pagination
xvii, 409 p. ;
Number of pages
409

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OL788709M
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ISBN 10
1573225053
LCCN
95021092
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7143
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10461

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