![]() Centering around the tempestuous breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox - two denizens of the 1950s San Francisco underground - This book is a tale of dark alleys and smoky rooms, of artists, visionaries, and also adventurers existing outside mainstream America’s field of vision. This book was generated out of the same kind of ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac’s early classics, On the Road. 'When I read it, I couldnt smell the tarmac,' he said. Written in three days and three nights, The Subterraneans is, like all Kerouac's work, closely related to his own life while encapsulating his great vision of America. For a long time, he had been irritated by the French translation (the Gallimard edition) of Kerouacs best-known work, On the Road. Later printings and subsequent book club editions do not feature the price in that location. True first printings of the book include the 3.95 pricing information on the top right hand corner of the front inside dust jacket flap. This semi-autobiographical work was Kerouacs second book. On The Road was first published by Viking in 1957. ![]() But, afraid of his growing involvement, Leo sets out to destroy their love. London : 1958 £1,500.00 Stock Code: 162640 First UK edition, first impression, of the defining work of Beat literature, originally published in the US the previous year. One of them is Mardou Fox, beautiful and a little crazy, whose dark eyes, full of suffering and sweetness, find recognition in Leo. So, Leo Percepied, aspiring writer and self styled free wheeling bum, gravitates to the subterraneans, impoverished intellectuals who haunt the bars of San Francisco. The jacket has toning and minor chipping. ![]()
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