The Subterraneans: Jack Kerouac (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Ann Douglas (Introduction), Ann Douglas (Introduction), Jack Kerouac (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $11.36

  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 bitter-sweet and ill-starred love affair sees Kerouac at his most evocative. Many regard this as being Kerouac's most touching and tender book.