A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discoveryAs 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
ISBN: | 9780241348079 |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
Published date: | 02 Aug 2018 |
DEWEY: | 813.54 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 160 |
Weight: | 102g |
Height: | 112mm |
Width: | 180mm |
Spine width: | 21mm |