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''The tender and achingly poetic account of a love affair'' Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone

Leo Percepied, aspiring writer and self-styled freewheeling bum, gravitates to the subterraneans, impoverished intellectuals who haunt the bars of San Francisco. One of them is Mardou Fox, beautiful and a little crazy, whose dark eyes, full of suffering and sweetness, find recognition in Leo. But, afraid of his growing involvement, Leo sets out to destroy their love. Written in three days, The Subterraneans is, like all Kerouac''s work, closely related to his own life while encapsulating his great vision of America.

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A Paperback / softback by Jack Kerouac, Ann Douglas

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 01/03/2001
    ISBN13: 9780141184890, 978-0141184890
    ISBN10: 0141184892
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    Description

    Book Synopsis

    ''The tender and achingly poetic account of a love affair'' Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone

    Leo Percepied, aspiring writer and self-styled freewheeling bum, gravitates to the subterraneans, impoverished intellectuals who haunt the bars of San Francisco. One of them is Mardou Fox, beautiful and a little crazy, whose dark eyes, full of suffering and sweetness, find recognition in Leo. But, afraid of his growing involvement, Leo sets out to destroy their love. Written in three days, The Subterraneans is, like all Kerouac''s work, closely related to his own life while encapsulating his great vision of America.

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