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The subterraneans

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An edition of Les Souterrains (1958)

The subterraneans

1st rev. black cat ed.

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The Subterraneans is a 1958 novella by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. It is a semi-fictional account of his short romance with an African American woman named Alene Lee (1931-1991) in New York in 1953. In the novel she is renamed "Mardou Fox," and described as a carefree spirit who frequents the jazz clubs and bars of the budding Beat scene of San Francisco. Other well-known personalities and friends from the author's life also appear thinly disguised in the novel. The character Frank Carmody is based on William Burroughs, and Adam Moorad on Allen Ginsberg. Even Gore Vidal appears as successful novelist Arial Lavalina. Kerouac's alter ego is named Leo Percepied, and his long-time friend Neal Cassady is mentioned only in passing as Leroy.

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Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Language
English
Pages
152

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Subjects
Beat Generation, Fiction, Fiction in English, Beats (Persons), San francisco (calif.), fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), American fiction, Generación Beat, Novela, Novela estadounidense, Literatura estadounidense, Autores estadounidenses, Beatniks, Romans, nouvelles, Roman américain, Beats (persons), Beats (persons)--fiction, Pz3.k4596 su, Ps3521.e735, Ps3521.e735 s9 1958b, 813.5 k39s, 1958
People
Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Alene Lee, Gore Vidal, Neal Cassady
Places
San Francisco, New York
Times
1953

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Podzemnye: roman
2012, Azbuka
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Los Subterraneos
February 1997, Anagrama, Editorial Anagrama
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The Subterraneans
January 27, 1994, Grove Press
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The subterraneans
1981, Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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Les souterrains
1964, Gallimard
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"A Grove Press outrider book."

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3521.E735 S9 1981, PS3521.E735S9 1981

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Pagination
iv, 152 p. ;
Number of pages
152

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OL3785365M
ISBN 10
0394179528
LCCN
81047644
OCLC/WorldCat
7945733
Library Thing
40757
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2438239

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