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Title: Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac, Joyce Johnson ISBN: 1-57322-505-3 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Desolation indeed...
Comment: From the moment I opened On the Road, I knew Jack Kerouac
wasn't just any author. A new spirit and new feelings, stirred
up by mere words...It doesn't happen often enough.
In that respect, Desolation Angels is typical Kerouac. The
incredibly flowing mad descriptions and details, his friends
as real as the stars, beautifully rendered real personalities.
From his isolation as a fire lookout, long time to be sober
for Kerouac, he jumps back into his old life...Drinking
screaming talking crazy friends Ginsberg Cassady et al. A
trip to Mexico, living above an old junky, Mexican women,
writing. Friends come to Mexico...you can imagine.
Tangier and William Burroughs, another junky...Kerouac helps
him, typing the manuscript of Naked Lunch (Nude Dinner, he
calls it, just like the other pseudonyms he assigns...)...
Back to the States, more of the wonderful same, always fresh
and exciting...But in the end, I was only surprised. He left
his Desolation Angels.
Rating: 5
Summary: Kerouac's best novel
Comment: Wonderful novel by Jack Kerouac. We sense his deep loneliness and reevaluation of his life during his 63-day stay atop Desolation Peak in Mt. Baker National Forest in Washington State. Once down from the mountain, he sees how much life has changed once his novel "On the Road" is published. For those of you who loved "On the Road," "Desolation Angels" is a book you definitely must read--it's by far Kerouac's best and most personal novel.
Rating: 5
Summary: No, Kerouac is Not a God...
Comment: But he is an awesome writer, human being, and metaphysicist (which I believe is the whole point of his work). What Kerouac does in his literature, particularly this piece, is thoroughly illustrate the rift created in the worlds of those who are torn between a culturally prescribed allgience/addiction to idealism and a fear that existentialsm is the only truth to which one can rightfully subscribe.
I would certainly point to "Desolation Angels" as the pinnacle of the body of Kerouac's work, and reccomend the book to anyone similarly riddled with Kerouac's spiritual affliction. Or anyone who wishes to study his genre of literature.
I do not reccomend the book to anyone who is easily bored. Though BEAUTIFUL, the text is long, complex, and a bit heavy at times, which can become frustrating. Better to start out with (hey - if you're going to read Kerouac you need to read this book anyway...) "On The Road", which is more of a thrill ride and will compel you to keep reading so you might adjust and become more prepared to digest the poetry he puts into paragraphs and stretches into hundreds of pages.
But that's just my ten-cents' worth. You can decide for yourself.
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Title: Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac ISBN: 0140042520 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: On the Road by Jack Kerouac ISBN: 0140042598 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac ISBN: 0802131867 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Big Sur by Jack Kerouac, Aram Saroyan ISBN: 0140168125 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac ISBN: 0140179070 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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