Although he was born and raised in Massachusetts, Jack Kerouac's family was French-Canadian, a fact of which he was proud. Published in 1967, when Kerouac was at the height of his fame, this book tells the story of a ten-day visit to Paris and Brittany in search of his ancestors. On this hectic odyssey, fascinated by everything and everyone he met, from a faded French beauty in a Montparnasse gangster bar to one of his strange, foppish Breton namesakes, Kerouac experienced a feeling of transcendence, a Satori, which was to the Beat generation the culmination of all experience.
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Paperback, good condition. Some wear to cover edges, no creasing on spine. Discolouration on back cover (as seen in photo). Pages are clean and binding is tight.
Published by Quartet Books, 1973 (first published 1967).
ISBN: 0704310163