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Title: Desolation Angels by John Kerouac ISBN: 0-399-50385-4 Publisher: Perigee Books Pub. Date: March, 1978 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.89 (27 reviews)
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: Jack's many lives converge in this book.
Comment: There are usually two types of Kerouac readers. There are the "On the Roaders", as I call them. The ones that enjoy his style, his way of placing his friend's lives into the context of their own troubles, their loneliness their love-- all the while with a literary pace likened to a old pickup speeding across the straightaways of the vacant Montana backroads. And then there are the others, who like the former, enjoy the style-- but they also look for the sadness in Kerouac's writing. His ability to deconstruct people with one look (in Des. Angels he watches a waitress in a bar and tells her entire life story in snapshot events that underlie the sad look in her eyes), to find the hidden sentiments in people's actions- whether he's right or wrong we really don't care.
Desolation Angels is the book for the second group of people. It is tortuous at times- like his solitude atop the mountain staring Hozomeen in the face every morning which reveals Kerouac's own struggle to deal with himself and his past. But I believe among all of his novels it is the most rewarding. The book takes us to all of his major haunts- London, New York, San Fran, Paris, the Mediterranean- with many of his closest friends - Neal, Allen, Williams S. Burroughs, Joyce. There's even a small part where Kerouac is face to face with Salvidore Dali.
If you are looking for Kerouac-the-humanist at his best- this is the novel for you. Where the novel lacks in adventure (On the Road) and joyous affirmation (dharma bums) it makes up in sheer descriptive character study and sad observation, of a man trying to grapple with what he sees as the emptiness of all things, and the sad reality of his own personal struggles with live, love, and death.
Rating: 5
Summary: A journey into the mind of a true madman!!!
Comment: If you've read On the Road, then this is a must read. It is a true journey into the mind of a madman. A more intimate look into the man that defined a generation of our parents, parents. As a younger reader of the generation today it is beneficial for us to see how people lived in past generations and take with us their experiences that in a sense you could not experience today. If I've taken anything from this book its the showing of the need for insanity in the life of Kerouac. And the need for constinent movement, not just in the physical sense but also in the mental sense of having his mind in constient movement.
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Title: Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac ISBN: 0140042520 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac ISBN: 0802131867 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: On the Road by Jack Kerouac ISBN: 0140042598 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Big Sur by Jack Kerouac ISBN: 0140168125 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac ISBN: 0140179070 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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