Lonesome Traveler

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'Railroad work, sea work, mysticism, mountain work, solipsism, self-indulgence, bullfights, drugs, churches, streets of cities, a mishmash of life as lived by an independent educated penniless rake going anywhere: Lonesome Traveler's scope and purpose is simply poetry, or natural description.' JACK KEROUAC In this restless, exciting book, Jack Kerouac covers the Los Angeles waterfront, Mexico, New York, Paris and London. He reveals a way of life - the life of the road - and presents his unique philosophy of selffulfilment. A key Kerouac work, Lonesome Traveler is one of the books that made him the prophet and chronicler of an entire generation. 'Kerouac's strange mixture of wit, high spirits, incoherence, nobility and odd-ball individualism produces somé piquant writing, the best part of its flavour being that peculiarly American strain, the craving for greatness, the hunt for the big experience, a touch of Hemingway and Whitman.* GUARDIAN 'Kerouac has the essentially American gift... Tovább

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'Railroad work, sea work, mysticism, mountain work, solipsism, self-indulgence, bullfights, drugs, churches, streets of cities, a mishmash of life as lived by an independent educated penniless rake going anywhere: Lonesome Traveler's scope and purpose is simply poetry, or natural description.' JACK KEROUAC In this restless, exciting book, Jack Kerouac covers the Los Angeles waterfront, Mexico, New York, Paris and London. He reveals a way of life - the life of the road - and presents his unique philosophy of selffulfilment. A key Kerouac work, Lonesome Traveler is one of the books that made him the prophet and chronicler of an entire generation. 'Kerouac's strange mixture of wit, high spirits, incoherence, nobility and odd-ball individualism produces somé piquant writing, the best part of its flavour being that peculiarly American strain, the craving for greatness, the hunt for the big experience, a touch of Hemingway and Whitman.* GUARDIAN 'Kerouac has the essentially American gift of describing the physical world so intensely, so poetically, that one sees, hears and feels. Lonesome Traveler is full of startiing and beautiful things.' SUNDAY TIMES 'We can be grateful for this reminder of the sense of loss itself, this search for innocence, this prose of observed detail, of high childish delight, of peace and joy and the hymns to the flux and flow and endless diversity of humán life.' TLS Cover illustration by Simon Feli Many of Kerouac's books are available in Flamingó, including Big Sur, Vanity of Duluoz and The Dharma 8ums. Vissza