Desolation Angels (novel)
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| Author | Jack Kerouac |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Duluoz legend |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Coward McCann |
| Released | 1965 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 366 pg |
| ISBN | NA |
| Preceded by | Visions of Gerard (1963) |
| Followed by | Satori in Paris (1966) |
Desolation Angels, published in 1965, yet written years earlier around the time On the Road was in the process of publication, is one of Jack Kerouac's most autobiographical novels, and makes up part of his Dululoz Legend. According to the book's foreword, the opening section of the novel is almost directly taken from the journal he kept when he was a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade mountains of Washington state. Much of the psychological struggle which the novel's protagonist, Jack Duluoz, undergoes in the novel reflects Kerouac's own increasing disenchantment with the Buddhist philosophy with which he had previously been fascinated.
Bad Company's 1979 album Desolation Angels was named after this novel.
Kathy Acker's Novel Kathy Goes to Haiti references this book.
A card in the game Magic: The Gathering is named Desolation Angel, referencing this novel.
Detroit-based country rock band [Desolation Angels] was named after this novel.
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- 1965. Desolation Angels
| Books by Jack Kerouac |
| The Town and the City • On the Road • The Subterraneans • The Dharma Bums • Doctor Sax • Maggie Cassidy • Mexico City Blues • Book of Dreams • Tristessa • Visions of Cody • Lonesome Traveler • Big Sur • Visions of Gerard • Desolation Angels • Satori in Paris • Vanity of Duluoz • Pic • Scattered Poems • Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings • Old Angel Midnight • Good Blonde & Others • Orpheus Emerged • Book of Sketches • And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (unpublished) |
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