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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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    A Paperback / softback by Jack Kerouac

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 22 February 2018
      ISBN-13 9780241339183
      978-0241339183
      ISBN-10 0241339189
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      Biography Reportage, journalism or collected columns Books by Jack Kerouac

      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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