Author: Kerouac, Jack,
Title: The Subterraneans.
Description: NY, Grove Press, 1st black cat, (1977). 6th prntg. Fair PB Edge wear, pages tanned, writing inside. List of characters on front endpaper. Story of a self-confident man with nervous intelligence about eveything. Handwriting on front cover back liting characters in the book Shrp extraordinarily written novel of love and despair among the young poets, painters and jazz usicians of postwar San Francisco in the center of his frenetic and stormy mileiu are the writer Leo Percepied and the young black girl Mardou Fox, Kerouac describees this tender but doomed affair in a prose that has been compared by some to that of Thomas Wolfe and by other to the rich music of Dylan Thomas. A wild, nervous prose ideally suited to describing the world in which Leo and Marcou revolve - noisy bars and jazz clubs, the alleyways and cheap pads of San Frnacisco of he fifties.

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