Regarded by many as Jack Kerouac's most touching works The Subterraneans & Pic are an evocative & poignant pair of novels from the author of On the Road This Penguin Modern Classics edition

Includes:: an introduction by Ann Douglas Leo Percepied aspiring writer & self-styled free-wheeling bum gravitates to the Subterraneans impoverished intellectuals who haunt the bars & clubs of San Francisco surviving on a diet of booze & benzedrine Proust & Verlaine Living among them is Mardou Fox beautiful & a little crazy whose dark eyes full of suffering & sweetness find recognition in Leo But afraid of his growing involvement Leo sets out to destroy their love Exuberant & melancholy Kerouac's spontaneous prose flows across the pages 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 Also included here is the novel Pic the story of a young black boy who makes his own journey on the road Jack Kerouac (1922-69) was an American novelist poet artist & part of the Beat Generation His first published novel The Town & the City appeared in 1950 but it was On the Road published in 1957 that made Kerouac famous Publication of his many other books followed among them The Subterraneans Big Sur & The Dharma Bums Kerouac died in Florida at the age of forty-seven If you enjoyed The Subterraneans & Pic you might like Kerouac's Maggie Cassidy also available in Penguin Modern Classics' The tender & achingly poetic account of a love affair' Lester Bangs Rolling Stone

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The second volume in Philip Pullman's incredible HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy First published in 1997 & acclaimed as a modern masterpiece it won the UK's top awards for children's literature " What is he? A friend or an enemy?" " He is a murderer" Will has just killed a man He's on the run His escape will take him far beyond his own world to the eerie disquiet of a deserted city & to a girl Lyra Her fate is strangely linked to his own & together they must find the most powerful weapon in all the worlds ...

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