Book description
Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his
boyhood imagination, 'my ghost, personal angel, private shadow, secret
lover'. In this extraordinary autobiographical account of growing up in
Lowell, Massachussetts, told through his fictional alter ego Jack
Duluoz, he mingles real people and events with fantastical figures to
capture the accents, scents, sights and texture of his childhood:
playing among the river weeds and railroad tracks, going to church,
witnessing life and death on the street corners. Written when he was
staying with William Burroughs in Mexico in 1952,
Doctor Sax
was Kerouac's favourite of all his books: a dark, vivid and magical
evocation of a boy's vibrant inner life. Jack Kerouac (1922-69) was an
American novelist, poet, artist and part of the Beat Generation. Most of
his life was spent in the vast landscapes of America or living with his
Mother. Kerouac's best known works are On the Road
and The Dharma Bums.
