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Doctor Sax

By: Jack Kerouac
Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
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Doctor Sax is a haunting novel of deeply felt adolescence.

Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac’s own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. There, Doctor 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, in a novel that he once described as “the greatest book I ever wrote, or that I will write.”

©1959 Jack Kerouac (P)2024 Blackstone Publishing Biographical Fiction Contemporary Crime Fiction Fantasy Genre Fiction Noir Paranormal & Urban
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an interesting veiw of jacks memories of Lowell from child hood. a fine example of word jazz.

aLove craftian tale told in kerouacs jazz prose style.

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Had never read this title by Kerouac and a trip to city lights bookstore in SF and seeing this title on the shelf inspired me to do so. It’s some of his finest poetry, though barely followable as a story, with beautiful vignettes of his childhood but is interwoven with hallucination and fantasy. It goes a bit off the rails in the end and all the French was a bit daunting for me (and the reader of the audiobook) but in all a worthwhile read.

A poetry prose story

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He did an excellent job and reads it like music. Hope he is the one who records Mexico City Blues.

The narrator knows rhythm.

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