{"product_id":"lonesome-traveler-english-edition-jack-kerouac","title":"Lonesome Traveler, English edition (Jack Kerouac)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eA timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's \u003ci\u003eLonesome Traveller \u003c\/i\u003eis a jubilant celebration of human discovery, published in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; catching up with the beat nightlife in New York; burying himself in the snow-capped mountains of north-west America; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers; or falling in love with Montmartre and the huge white basilica of Sacré-Coeur - Kerouac reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Piquant writing, the best part of its flavour being ... the hunt for the big experience, a touch of Hemingway and Whitman'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Full of startling and beautiful things ... one sees, hears and feels'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJack Kerouac \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called 'spontaneous prose'. He used this technique to record the life of the American 'traveler' and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably in \u003ci\u003eOn the Road \u003c\/i\u003eand also in \u003ci\u003eThe Subterraneans \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Dharma Bums. \u003c\/i\u003eHis other works include \u003ci\u003eBig Sur\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa\u003c\/i\u003e, and a book of poetry called \u003ci\u003eMexico City Blues\u003c\/i\u003e. Jack Kerouac died in 1969.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format, Englisch, 160 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65812684702045,"sku":"K018838125","price":11.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/1883812500001A.jpg?v=1788533443","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/lonesome-traveler-english-edition-jack-kerouac","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}