Book description
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. Many regard this as being Kerouac's
most touching and tender book. Jack Kerouac wrote a number of highly
influential and popular novels - most famously the international
best-seller ON THE ROAD - and is remembered as one of the key figures of
the legendary Beat generation. As much as anything, he came to represent
a philosophy, a way of life.
