Doctor Sax - Faust Part Three

In this haunting novel of intensely felt adolescence, Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up, as Kerouac himself did, in the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. Dr. Sax, with his flowing cape, slouch hat, and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons that populate Jack's fantasy world. Deftly mingling memory and dream, Kerouac captures the accents and texture of his boyhood in Lowell as he relates Jack's adventures with this cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom. "Kerouac dreams of America in the authentic rolling rhythms of a Whitman or a Thomas Wolfe, drunk with eagerness for life." - John K. Hutchens; "Kerouac's peculiar genius infects every page." - The New York Times.

About the author

JACK KEROUAC was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. On the Road, published in 1957, epitomized what became known as the “Beat generation.” He died in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1969.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Kerouac
• Publisher: Grove Atlantic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.01.1994
• EAN: 9780802130495
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-3049-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 211 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 282 g
• Series: Kerouac, Jack
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Massachusetts, Fiction: general & literary, Narrative theme: Coming of age, c 1960 to c 1969, Father’s Day, EVENT / Summer Vacation Reading, Classic fiction: general and literary