In this haunting novel of intensely felt adolescence, Jack Kerouac tells
the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up, as Kerouac
himself did, in the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. Dr.
Sax, with his flowing cape, slouch 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
texture of his boyhood in Lowell as he relates Jack's adventures with
this cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom.