DOCTOR SAX

Beautifully rejacketed, Doctor Sax is one of Kerouac's best books - avivid, nostalgic tale of one boy's extraordinary childhood. Of all hisbooks, Doctor Sax was the one Jack Kerouac loved the most. He beganwriting it in 1948, but wrote the greater part of it in 1952, when he wasstaying in Mexico with William Burroughs. Told through the character ofKerouac's fictional alter ego, Jack Duluoz, the novel tells the story ofhis extraordinary childhood in Massachusetts. A clever and rebellious boy,playing among the river weeds and railroad tracks, going to the movies,reading pulp comics and watching cartoons, Jack creates an imaginary worldof strange, new possibilities. Within this world lies the weird andwonderful Doctor Sax!