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Lonesome Traveler
- Author
- Jack Kerouac
- Narrator
- Andrew Eiden
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 13 September 2025
- Run Time
- 5 hours 53 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
From famed Beat writer Jack Kerouac comes a collection of essays and stories compiled from journal entries he made during his travels.
In his first autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac reveals exhilarating stories of the years he spent traveling, while writing his acclaimed novels. His journeys took him from California deserts crisscrossed by train tracks to the bullfights of Mexico to the Beat nightlife of New York City and across the Atlantic to Paris, Morocco, and London.
He also writes about relationship, jobs, and the nature of life on the road. Here are echoes of landscapes that appear in some of his novels, including The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels.
Included here are “Piers of a Homeless Night,” “Mexico Fellaheen,” “The Railroad Earth,” “Slobs of the Kitchen Sea,” “New York Scenes,” “Alone on a Mountaintop,” “Big Trip to Europe,” and “The Vanishing American Hobo.” All feature his distinctive exuberant style of prose.
This collection, first published together in 1960, is a unique addition to Kerouac’s body of work.
Critics Review
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“Incredible, animal word-energy…Kerouac appears as a T. E. Lawrence of the five senses.”
New York Times
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“Full of startling and beautiful things…One sees, hears, and feels.”
Sunday Times (London)
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“Kerouac’s work is one of the most extraordinary, influential, maddening, and ultimately prodigious achievements in recent literature.”
John Clellon Holmes, American author, poet, and professor
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Details
- Author
- Jack Kerouac
- Narrator
- Andrew Eiden
- Duration
- 5 hours 53 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 September 2025
- ISBN
- 9798212233576
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Memoirs, Travel guides: adventure holidays, Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc, Travel writing
Synopsis
From famed Beat writer Jack Kerouac comes a collection of essays and stories compiled from journal entries he made during his travels.In his first autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac reveals exhilarating stories of the years he spent traveling, while writing his acclaimed novels. His journeys took him from California deserts crisscrossed by train tracks to the bullfights of Mexico to the Beat nightlife of New York City and across the Atlantic to Paris, Morocco, and London. He also writes about relationship, jobs, and the nature of life on the road. Here are echoes of landscapes that appear in some of his novels, including The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels.Included here are “Piers of a Homeless Night,” “Mexico Fellaheen,” “The Railroad Earth,” “Slobs of the Kitchen Sea,” “New York Scenes,” “Alone on a Mountaintop,” “Big Trip to Europe,” and “The Vanishing American Hobo.” All feature his distinctive exuberant style of prose.This collection, first published together in 1960, is a unique addition to Kerouac’s body of work.
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