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Brought to you by Penguin. Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 'King of the Beats', needs peace, quiet and sobriety: surrounded and outnumbered he has to 'get away to...

Brought to you by Penguin. Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This Penguin Modern Classics...

Primero estuvo en 1952, para visitar a su amigo William Burroughs. Allí conoció a Bill Garver (rebautizado «Bull Gaines» por Kerouac) y a la joven Esperanza Villanueva (rebautizada «Tristeza»), morfinómana desde los dieciséis, prostituta ocasional y casada con un traficante llamado David Tercerero («Dave», en la novela). Es la historia de una redención frustrada (una redención doble, porque Kerouac, al tratar de salvar a la muchacha de la drogadicción, trata de salvarse a sí mismo), y también un recorrido iniciático por el infierno de la capital mexicana.

From the acclaimed Beat Generation author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums come eight extended poems in which he reflects on the urban settings he finds himself in. Best known for his novels, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in...

From the renowned Beat writer Jack Kerouac comes this important work of lyric verse, one of his most formally inventive books. A long poem in Kerouac’s freewheeling and spontaneous improvisational style, Mexico City Blues is a unique epic of sound, rhythm, and religion. Called superb sensory...

A 50th anniversary audiobook of Kerouac’s classic novel that defined a generation Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road...