Doctor Sax“Kerouac’s best book.”—TIME Dr. Sax is a haunting novel of deeply felt adolescence, Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac’s own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. There, Dr. Sax, with his flowing cape, slouched 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 textures of his boyhood in Lowell in this novel of a cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom that he once described as “the greatest book I ever wrote, or that I will write.” |
Contents
Section 14 | 81 |
Section 15 | 101 |
Section 16 | 117 |
Section 17 | 145 |
Section 18 | 155 |
Section 19 | 157 |
Section 20 | 158 |
Section 21 | 183 |
Section 9 | 44 |
Section 10 | 50 |
Section 11 | 61 |
Section 12 | 71 |
Section 13 | 75 |
Section 22 | 204 |
Section 23 | 212 |
Section 24 | 217 |
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