Author: Kerouac, Jack,
Title: Lonesome Traveler.
Description: NY, Grove Press/Black Cat Ed, (1970). 9th prntg. VG PB. Includes an introduction of his life at beginning of text. Piers of the Homeless Night second section. Father of the beat gemeratopm one pf the most acclaimed (and criticized) of all modern times. He died in 1969 at the age of 47. Here he writes of the years he was writing his books that captivated and infuriated the readomg public, reckles years of wandering during which he worked on the railroad in California, then in the galley of a tramp steamer that sailed the coasts of AmerIca, then as a fire lookout on the peaks of the Cascade Mountains. Author of 16 books, life as lived by an independent educated penniless rake going anywhere. "There is nothing nobler than putting up with a few inconveniences like snakes and dust for the sake of absolute freedome.

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