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      The Subterraneans

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      The Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living amongst them is Leo, an aspiring writer, and Mardou, half-Indian, half-Negro, beautiful and neurotic. Their bitter-sweet and ill-starred love a...

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      Product ID:9780141184890
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Series:Penguin Modern Classics
      Title:The Subterraneans
      Authors:Author: Jack Kerouac
      Page Count:112
      Subjects:Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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      The Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living amongst them is Leo, an aspiring writer, and Mardou, half-Indian, half-Negro, beautiful and neurotic. Their bitter-sweet and ill-starred love affair sees Kerouac at his most evocative.

      ''The tender and achingly poetic account of a love affair'' Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone

      Leo Percepied, aspiring writer and self-styled freewheeling bum, gravitates to the subterraneans, impoverished intellectuals who haunt the bars of San Francisco. One of them is Mardou Fox, beautiful and a little crazy, whose dark eyes, full of suffering and sweetness, find recognition in Leo. But, afraid of his growing involvement, Leo sets out to destroy their love. Written in three days, The Subterraneans is, like all Kerouac''s work, closely related to his own life while encapsulating his great vision of America.


      Imprint Name:Penguin Classics
      Publisher Name:Penguin Books Ltd
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2001-03-01

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      Weight90 g
      Dimensions199 × 129 × 14 mm