Doctor Sax, Jack Kerouac
Doctor Sax, Jack Kerouac
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Doctor Sax

Author: Jack Kerouac, Jim Sampas

Narrator: Andrew Eiden

Unabridged: 6 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/24/2024

Synopsis

Doctor Sax is a haunting novel of deeply felt adolescence.Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac’s own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. There, Doctor Sax, with his flowing cape, slouched hat, and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons that populate Jack’s fantasy world.Deftly mingling memory and dream, Kerouac captures the accents and textures of his boyhood in Lowell in this novel of a cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom, in a novel that he once described as “the greatest book I ever wrote, or that I will write.”

About Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) was an American novelist and poet who influenced generations of writers. He is recognized for his spontaneous prose style and for being a pioneer of the Beat Generation.

About Andrew Eiden

Andrew Eiden is an actor and winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award for narration. He has been acting since the age of four, working at regional theaters, in national commercials, and on numerous television shows.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jack on November 29, 2011

Thing is, most of Kerouac's work is not linear and neat and tidy. It's poorly punctuated stream-of-consciousness, skipping from image to image to emotion to sensation. So if you think you like Kerouac because you liked On the Road, you may not like this book. And if you only like Kerouac when he's w......more

Goodreads review by Matthew Ted on February 17, 2020

26th book of 2020. I'm reading a lot of Kerouac at the moment; this is my 7th. You may imagine my excitement then, on finding that this is Kerouac's own favourite of all of his work, and my edition has a quote from Time that reads: Kerouac's best book. It is not. I'm sorry Jack, but this was mostly n......more

Goodreads review by robin on September 03, 2020

Dr. Sax The year 2007 marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac's (1922-- 1969) "On the Road." The Library of America, among others publishers, has marked the occasion with the publication of a new volume including five Kerouac "Road Novels". I wanted to reread other works by Ker......more

Goodreads review by Garrett Cook on June 30, 2008

Dr. Sax is a cool, surreal and proficient beat novel. The narrative dream logic glides through a world of magical realism surrounding the protagonist's life. Beautiful, sometimes profane, always interesting, I consider this Kerouac's best. A potent flight of the imagination.......more

Quotes

“Duluoz is exuberantly profane and comfortably delinquent…Full of pinball prose, Doctor Sax is an elegy to the warm, safe smells of a tenement kitchen and the dark mysteries of a city neighborhood. It is Kerouac’s best book.” Time

“Kerouac dreams of America in the authentic rolling rhythms of a Whitman or a Thomas Wolfe, drunk with eagerness for life.” New York Herald Tribune

“Spooky and tender with stretches of sheer phosphorescent fantasy, Doctor Sax has a vigor and thirst for life. A real prize, one of the lost gems of modern literature.” Rolling Stone

“Vivid, moving, and funny.” The Guardian (London)

“Kerouac’s peculiar genius infects every page.” New York Times

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