The Subterraneans - Jack Kerouac

'The tender and achingly poetic account of a love affair' Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone

Leo
Percepied, aspiring writer and self-styled freewheeling bum, gravitates
to the subterraneans, impoverished intellectuals who haunt the bars of
San Francisco. One of them is Mardou Fox, beautiful and a little crazy,
whose dark eyes, full of suffering and sweetness, find recognition in
Leo. But, afraid of his growing involvement, Leo sets out to destroy
their love. Written in three days, The Subterraneans is, like all Kerouac's work, closely related to his own life while encapsulating his great vision of America.