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''See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...''

Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York''s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Piers of the Homeless Night Jack Kerouac Penguin

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 22/02/2018
    ISBN13: 9780241339183, 978-0241339183
    ISBN10: 0241339189
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    Description

    Book Synopsis

    ''See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...''

    Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation.

    Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York''s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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