Desolation Angels

Desolation Angels

1958 • 432 pages

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Desolation Angels is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, which makes up part of his Duluoz Legend. It was published in 1965, but was written years earlier, around the time On the Road was in the process of publication. According to the book's foreword, the opening section of the novel is taken almost directly from the journal he kept when he was a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade mountains of Washington state. Much of the psychological struggle which the novel's protagonist, Jack Duluoz, undergoes in the novel reflects Kerouac's own increasing disenchantment with the Buddhist philosophy with which he had previously been fascinated.

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Duluoz Legend

Duluoz Legend is a 34-book series first released in 1950 with contributions by Jack Kerouac, Джак Керуак, and Джек Керуак.

The Town And The City
The Dharma Bums
La città e la metropoli
The Town and the City: A Novel
On the Road

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