I'm back on my Kerouac kick (the Beats were the subject of my grad school research, although they themselves hated that label). This novel is about the childhood figments of Kerouac's imagination while growing up in Lowell, Mass., and is so out-there and bizarre (even for Kerouac) anyone who reads it will probably never need to drink or do drugs ever again.
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Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists
I'm back on my Kerouac kick (the Beats were the subject of my grad school research, although they themselves hated that label). This novel is about the childhood figments of Kerouac's imagination while growing up in Lowell, Mass., and is so out-there and bizarre (even for Kerouac) anyone who reads it will probably never need to drink or do drugs ever again.In the middle of my life's journey, I found myself in a dark wood, as I had lost the straight path. It is a difficult thing to speak about, how wild, harsh and impenetrable that wood is. Just thinking about it recreates the fear. It is scarcely less bitter than death, but in order to tell of the good that I found there, I must tell of the other things I saw there. --Dante, paraphrasedTags: None
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