Doctor Sax

Kerouac wrote this novel in 1952, five years before ON THE ROAD was published. It is, like his other works, highly autobiographical; it tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy coming of age in a New England mill town. Despite panning it almost universally, critics nevertheless found themselves acknowledging Kerouac's peculiar genius, as David Dempsey put it in his New York Times review of May 3, 1959. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.