A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation,Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discovery,published in Penguin Modern Classics.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.'Piquant writing,the best part of its flavour being...the hunt for the big experience,a touch of Hemingway and Whitman'Guardian'Full of startling and beautiful things...one sees,hears and feels'Sunday Times
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141184906Number of pages: 160Weight: 123 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 9 mm
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