The Subterraneans
  • Published: 6 February 2020
  • ISBN: 9780141184890
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $29.99

The Subterraneans

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6 Feb 2020
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21 Jul 2011
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One of Kerouac's most enduring and touching works

The Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living amongst them is Leo, an aspiring writer, and Mardou, half-Indian, half-Negro, beautiful and neurotic. Their bittersweet and ill-starred love affair sees Kerouac at his most evocative. Many regard this as being Kerouac's most touching and tender book.
  • Published: 6 February 2020
  • ISBN: 9780141184890
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Jack Kerouac

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.

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