PENGUIN BOOKS
ON THE ROAD
Jack Kerouac was the descendant of Breton Cana-
dians who married with Mohawk and Caughnawaga
Indians. He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, where,
he said, he 'roamed fields and riverbanks by day and
night, wrote little novels in my room, first novel
written at...
part one
I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't bother to talk about, except that it had something to do with the miserably weary split-up and my feeling that everything was dead. With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the...
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Nem sokkal azután ismerkedtem meg Deannel, hogy az asszonnyal különmentünk. Súlyos nyavalyából lábaltam kifele - nem is részletezem most. Keserves huzakodásainknak is köze lehetett hozzá, elég annyi, s hogy az érzésem az volt, pusztul a világ. Dean Moriarty...