Doctor Sax

From the most famous of the Beat writers, the semi-autobiographical novel of growing up between dreams and nightmares in early twentieth century Massachusetts, now reissued following Kerouac's centenary celebrationA haunting novel of deeply felt adolescence, Dr. Sax is the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac's own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. There, Dr. Sax, with his flowing cape, slouched hat, and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons that populate Jack's fantasy world. Deftly mingling memory and dream, Kerouac captures the accents and textures of his boyhood in Lowell in this novel of a cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom that he once described as "the greatest book I ever wrote, or that I will write."


Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 08/15/2023
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780802162113
ISBN10: 0802162118
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Fantasy | General
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
JACK KEROUAC was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. On the Road, published in 1957, epitomized what became known as the "Beat generation." He died in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1969.