Desolation Angels
A Novel
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Jack Kerouac
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Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac’s life—the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957.
After spending two months in the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington, Kerouac’s fictional self Jack Duluoz comes down from the isolated mountains to the wild excitement of the bars, jazz clubs, and parties of San Francisco, before traveling on to Mexico City, New York, Tangiers, Paris, and London.
Duluoz attempts to extricate himself from the world but fails, for one must “live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” Desolation Angels is quintessential Kerouac.
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In his first autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac reveals exhilarating stories of the years he spent traveling, while writing his acclaimed novels. His journeys took him from California deserts crisscrossed by train tracks to the bullfights of Mexico to the Beat nightlife of New York City and across the Atlantic to Paris, Morocco, and London. He also writes about relationship, jobs, and the nature of life on the road. Here are echoes of landscapes that appear in some of his novels, including The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels.
De: Jack Kerouac
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Visions of Gerard
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 3 h y 27 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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The first book in Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend, a novella detailing the writer’s early life as refracted through the prism of the untimely loss of his brother.
De: Jack Kerouac
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Look Homeward, Angel
- A Story of the Buried Life
- De: Thomas Wolfe
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 25 h y 15 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Thomas Wolfe’s first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, is at once a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story and a dark novel depicting a cynical post-war world view. The book follows the life of Eugene Gant, a young man driven by passion, intellect, and a search for something greater than himself. His earliest years in rural North Carolina include a wonderful education in poetry and literature against the backdrop of a loving, but tumultuous family life.
De: Thomas Wolfe
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Desolation Peak
- Collected Writings
- De: Jack Kerouac, Charles Shuttleworth - editor
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, California, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking only the Diamond Sutra for reading material, he intended to spend his time in deep contemplation and to achieve enlightenment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kerouac at his most honest
- De MckyD’z en 12-01-22
De: Jack Kerouac, y otros
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On the Road
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,478
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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, Kerouac’s classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be “beat” and has inspired generations of writers, musicians, artists, poets, and seekers who cite their discovery of the book as the event that “set them free”.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Favorite Narration and a Wonderful Book
- De Guillermo en 09-17-09
De: Jack Kerouac
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The Dharma Bums
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Ethan Hawke
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
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First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential novels. The story focuses on two ebullient young Americans - mountaineer, poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder, and Ray Smith, a zestful, innocent writer - whose quest for Truth leads them on a heroic odyssey, from marathon parties and poetry jam sessions in San Francisco's Bohemia to solitude and mountain climbing in the High Sierras.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lyrical Rendition
- De Michael E en 04-28-20
De: Jack Kerouac
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Mexico City Blues
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 2 h y 30 m
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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 meditations, the poetry takes in life, death, and spirituality but roams widely across continents and cultures. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are all lyrically combined in the loose format inspired by jazz and the blues.
De: Jack Kerouac
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The Buddhist Years
- Collected Writings
- De: Jack Kerouac, Charles Shuttleworth - editor
- Narrado por: T. Ryder Smith
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1
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From a young age Kerouac was a spiritual thinker and questioner, and he always considered himself a spiritual writer. Buddhism gave more meaning to Jack’s work as a writer: he was working not for personal accomplishment and glory but for human betterment. And Buddhism justified his lifestyle: with its vision of the material world as empty and illusory, he was free to do what he wanted.
De: Jack Kerouac, y otros
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Vanity of Duluoz
- An Adventurous Education, 1935-46
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 5
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This book presents the formative years in the life of Jack Duluoz—Kerouac’s alter ego—beginning with his high school experiences as a sporting jock in small-town New England and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Just as Jack’s glamorous new adult life begins, so does World War II, and he joins the US Navy to travel the world. The more he experiences, the more he realizes the limits of his former plans and decides to and return to New York, where he collides with the start of the Beat movement—and a riot of drugs, sex, and writing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A brilliant read.
- De James DeYoung en 12-24-24
De: Jack Kerouac
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Visions of Cody
- Selections from the Novel
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Graham Parker
- Duración: 3 h y 7 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Kerouac examines his own New York life in a collection of colorful essays. Always transfixed by Neal Cassady—here named Cody Pomeray—along with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, Kerouac also explores the feelings he had for a man who inspired much of his work. Transcribing taped conversations between members of their group as they took drugs and drank, Visions of Cody reveals an intimate portrait of people caught up in destructive relationships with substances, and one another, capturing the members of the Beat Generation in the years before any label had been affixed to them.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Annoying
- De A. Yerkes en 07-20-09
De: Jack Kerouac
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Tristessa
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Mike Dennis
- Duración: 2 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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In 1955, novelist Jack Kerouac detoured from his cross-country American travels to Mexico City, where a group of junkie expatriates he had known from the New York City post-war scene had gone for the cheap and plentiful supply of heroin and morphine. Fellow beat writer William S. Burroughs, who had been a part of the Mexican expatriate community, had introduced Kerouac to Bill Garver (named Old Bull Gaines in the novel), a much-older, long-term addict who had in turn introduced Kerouac to Esperanza Villanueva, whom Kerouac named Tristessa in the novel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gritty
- De William en 06-09-18
De: Jack Kerouac
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On the Road
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: David Carradine
- Duración: 2 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 265
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On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience.
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1 out of 5 stars
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not the full book
- De Hannah en 12-11-17
De: Jack Kerouac
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Scattered Poems
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Duración: 1 h
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Just as he upended the conventions of the novel with On the Road, Jack Kerouac revolutionized American poetry in this ingenious collection. Bringing together selections from literary journals and his private notebooks, Jack Kerouac’s Scattered Poems exemplifies the Beat Generation icon’s innovative approach to language. Kerouac’s poems, populated by hitchhikers, Chinese grocers, Buddhist saints, and cultural figures from Rimbaud to Harpo Marx, evoke the primal and the sublime, the everyday and the metaphysical.
De: Jack Kerouac
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Wake Up
- A Life of the Buddha
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Originally written in 1955 and now published for the first time in audiobook form, Wake Up is Kerouac's retelling of the life of Prince Siddartha Gotama, who as a young man abandoned his wealthy family and comfortable home for a lifelong searchfor Enlightenment. Distilled from a wide variety of canonical scriptures, Wake Up serves as both a penetrating account of the Buddha's life and a concise primer on the principal teachings of Buddhism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I enjoyed Jacks biography of The Buddha
- De Joel en 07-10-23
De: Jack Kerouac