{"product_id":"lonesome-traveler-9780802162106","title":"Lonesome Traveler","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed Beat writer, Jack Kerouac's unique collectionof personal travel writing, now reissued following his centenary celebration\u003c\/b\u003eIn his first directly autobiographical book, Jack Kerouac relates the exhilarating stories of the years he spent restlessly traveling and writing his acclaimed novels. He journeys from the California deserts crisscrossed by train tracks to the bullfights of Mexico to the Beat nightlife of New York City, and across the Atlantic to Paris, Morocco, and London. With echoes of landscapes that appear in his other novels, including\u003ci\u003e The Dharma Bums\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDesolation \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAngels\u003c\/i\u003e, and featuring his distinctive exuberant style and \"jazzy impressionistic prose\" (\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eLonesome Traveler\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique addition to Kerouac's body of work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJACK KEROUAC \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922. He won a scholarship to Columbia University, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1957, epitomized to the world what became known as the \"Beat generation\" and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them \u003ci\u003eThe Dharma Bums\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Subterraneans\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBig Sur\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50629837422866,"sku":"9780802162106","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_314661db-17b9-4f26-b8a8-afc17c526c12.jpg?v=1732734991","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lonesome-traveler-9780802162106","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}