by Jack Kerouac
Rating: 3.50 (1 ratings)
First published 1977
In the sleepy mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, 13-year-old Jack dreams of the legendary "Doctor Sax" - a shadowy, snake-like figure who haunts the night. As Jack navigates his adolescent years, the lines between reality and fantasy blur. When a series of strange occurrences hint at Sax's sinister presence, Jack must confront the dark forces lurking in his own mind. In this hallucinatory coming-of-age tale, Kerouac's signature "spontaneous prose" plunges readers into the vivid, subconscious world of a youth on the cusp of adulthood.
Genres: literary-fiction, 20th-century, coming-of-age, fantasy
Vibes: intimate, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: blurred-reality, unreliable-narrator
Hardcover · Andre Deutsch