In this haunting novel of intensely felt adolescence, Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up, as Kerouac himself did, in the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. Dr. Sax, with his flowing cape, slouch 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 texture of his boyhood in Lowell as he relates Jack’s adventures with this cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom. Praise for Doctor Sax “Kerouac’s best book.”— TIME “Spooky and tender with stretches of sheer phosphorescent fantasy, Doctor Sax has a vigor and a thirst for life . . . One of the gems of modern literature.”— Rolling Stone “Kerouac’s peculiar genius infects every page.”— New York Times “Outlandish and visionary, it remains a powerful evocation of the exuberant iconoclasm of the Beat Generation.”— The Guardian JACK KEROUAC was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. On the Road , published in 1957, epitomized what became known as the “Beat generation.” He died in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1969. Used Book in Good Condition