Desolation Angels - Jack Kerouac

Category: Literature, Novel, Poetry
Language: English
Keywords: Beat Celebrity Drugs Duluoz Legend England France Mexico Morocco Roman à Clef Sexuality stream Of Consciousness United States Writing

Written by Jack Kerouac
Read by Andrew Eiden
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac’s life—the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957.

After spending two months in the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington, Kerouac’s fictional self Jack Duluoz comes down from the isolated mountains to the wild excitement of the bars, jazz clubs, and parties of San Francisco, before traveling on to Mexico City, New York, Tangiers, Paris, and London.

Duluoz attempts to extricate himself from the world but fails, for one must “live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” Desolation Angels is quintessential Kerouac.

March 18 2025
14 hrs and 5 mins