Lonesome Traveler

Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction

Jack Kerouac (author)

Paperback Published on: 02/08/2018

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A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discovery

As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. 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; catching up with the beat nightlife in New York; burying himself in the snow-capped mountains of north-west America; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers; or falling in love with Montmartre and the huge white basilica of Sacré-Coeur - Kerouac reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment.

'Full of startling and beautiful things ... one sees, hears and feels' Sunday Times

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241348079
Number of pages: 160
Weight: 99g
Dimensions: 180 x 111 x 9 mm

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The opening line in this edition is: 'Let's begin with the sight of me...'. The original, and better example of Kerouac's prose is 'Less begin with the sig... READ MORE

gary bleasdale