Doctor Sax: Faust Part Three

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Grove Press, 1987 - Fiction - 245 pages
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.
 

Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
9
Section 3
13
Section 4
20
Section 5
22
Section 6
34
Section 7
36
Section 8
39
Section 15
81
Section 16
101
Section 17
117
Section 18
145
Section 19
155
Section 20
157
Section 21
158
Section 22
159

Section 9
44
Section 10
50
Section 11
52
Section 12
58
Section 13
61
Section 14
71
Section 23
161
Section 24
171
Section 25
183
Section 26
204
Section 27
212
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About the author (1987)

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. His first novel, The Town and the City, was published in 1950. He considered all of his "true story novels," including On the Road, to be chapters of "one vast book," his autobiographical Legend of Duluoz. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969 at the age of forty-seven.

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