Lonesome Traveler

Lonesome Traveler

by Jack Kerouac

Narrated by Not Yet Available

Unabridged

Lonesome Traveler

Lonesome Traveler

by Jack Kerouac

Narrated by Not Yet Available

Unabridged

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Overview

From famed Beat writer Jack Kerouac comes a collection of essays and stories compiled from journal entries he made during his travels.

In his first autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac reveals exhilarating stories of the years he spent traveling, while writing his acclaimed novels. His journeys took him from California deserts crisscrossed by train tracks to the bullfights of Mexico to the Beat nightlife of New York City and across the Atlantic to Paris, Morocco, and London.

He also writes about relationship, jobs, and the nature of life on the road. Here are echoes of landscapes that appear in some of his novels, including The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels.

Included here are “Piers of a Homeless Night,” “Mexico Fellaheen,” “The Railroad Earth,” “Slobs of the Kitchen Sea,” “New York Scenes,” “Alone on a Mountaintop,” “Big Trip to Europe,” and “The Vanishing American Hobo.” All feature his distinctive exuberant style of prose. This collection, first published together in 1960, is a unique addition to Kerouac's body of work.


Editorial Reviews

New York Times Book Review

"Kerouac's nerve-ends vs. the universe, [with] flashes of poetry, truth, daffiness."

The New Yorker

"...jazzy impressionistic prose."

John Clellon Holmes

Kerouac’s work is one of the most extraordinary, influential, maddening, and ultimately prodigious achievements in recent literature.”

Sunday Times (London)

Full of startling and beautiful things…One sees, hears, and feels.”

New York Times

Incredible, animal word-energy…Kerouac appears as a T. E. Lawrence of the five senses.”

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Praise for Lonesome Traveler

“An incredible, animal word-energy . . . For those millions of Americans sitting in their nervous Eames chairs wasting away with eternal boredom, Kerouac appears as a T.E. Lawrence of the five senses.”—New York Times

“Full of startling and beautiful things . . . One sees, hears and feels.”—Sunday Times

“Kerouac’s work is one of the most extraordinary, influential, maddening, and ultimately prodigious achievements in recent literature.”—John Clellon Holmes

Product Details

BN ID: 2940159642042
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date: 11/26/2024
Edition description: Unabridged
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