The subterraneans

Jack Kerouac

GROVE/ATLANTIC Incorporated, 1958 - Fiction - 111 pages

Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac's early classic, On The Road. Centering on the tempestous breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox--two denizens of the 1950s San Francsico underground--The Subterraneans is a tale of dark alleys and dark rooms,of artists, of visionaries,

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Review: The Subterraneans (Duluoz Legend)

User Review  - Haylee Lederer - Goodreads

I finished The Subterraneans a couple days and I've realized that it has really stuck with me. I keep picking it up and flipping through it and rereading parts. I was in tears at the end of this book ...

Review: The Subterraneans (Duluoz Legend)

User Review  - Diamond Cronen - Goodreads

One of my favorite books of all time. I read as a youth many times and love the love-fevered frenzy Kerouac 's Leo has for the lovely Mardou Fox. If ever a characters name completely fit their essence ...

About the author

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. His first novel, The Town and the City, was published in 1950. He considered all of his "true story novels," including On the Road, to be chapters of "one vast book," his autobiographical Legend of Duluoz. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969 at the age of forty-seven.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The subterraneans; An Evergreen black cat book; Evergreen books, E-99; Volume 99 of Evergreen original; Kerouac, Jack Series
• Author: Jack Kerouac
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: GROVE/ATLANTIC Incorporated, 1958
• ISBN: 0802131867, 9780802131867
• Length: 111 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General