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      Doctor Sax

      by Jack Kerouac
      Published
      May 1992
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      From the most famous of the Beat writers, the semi-autobiographical novel of growing up between dreams and nightmares in early twentieth century Massachusetts, now reissued following Kerouac's centenary celebration

      A haunting novel of deeply felt adolescence, Dr. Sax is the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac's own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. There, Dr. Sax, with his flowing cape, slouched 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 textures of his boyhood in Lowell in this novel of a cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom that he once described as "the greatest book I ever wrote, or that I will write."

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      First Edition May 1992 HarperCollins (UK) ISBN13 9780586091562 ISBN10 0586091564
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      Jan 1975 Grove Press ISBN13 9780394172781 ISBN10 0394172787
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      Feb 1994 Grove Press ISBN13 9780802130495 ISBN10 0802130496
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      May 2012 Penguin (UK) ISBN13 9780141198248 ISBN10 0141198249
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      Dec 1976 Amereon Limited ISBN13 9780848814007 ISBN10 0848814002
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      Dec 2007 Grove Press ISBN13 9780802195722 ISBN10 0802195725
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      Dec 2014 Jack Kerouac ISBN10 B00RKSX6F6
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      Dec 2014 Interzone Books House Publisher ISBN13 1230004081807
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      Feb 2021 canonkhan ISBN13 1230004555803

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