- Published: 26 February 2018
- ISBN: 9780241339183
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 64
- RRP: $2.50
Piers of the Homeless Night
Fifty new books at £1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry
'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...'
Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation.
- Published: 26 February 2018
- ISBN: 9780241339183
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 64
- RRP: $2.50
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About the author
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922. In 1947, enthused by bebop, the rebel attitude of his friend Neal Cassidy, and the throng of hobos, drug addicts and hustlers he encountered in New York, he decided to discover America and hitchhhike across the country. His writing was openly autobiographical and he developed a style he referred to as 'spontaneous prose' which he used to record the experiences of the Beat Generation. Among his many novels are On the Road, Maggie Cassidy, The Subterraneans, The Dharma Bums and Big Sur. He died in 1969.