num_pages: 111
description: Jack Kerouac, one of the great voices of the Beat generation and author of the classic On the Road, here continues his peregrinations in postwar, underground San Francisco. "The subterraneans" come alive at night, travel along dark alleyways, and live in a world filled with paint, poetry, music, smoke, and sex. Simmering in the center of it all is the brief affair between Leo Percepied, a writer, and Mardou Fox, a black woman ten years younger. Just at the moment when she is coolly leaving him, Leo realizes his passion for passion, his inability to function without it, and the puzzling futility of seeking redemption and fulfillment through writing.
language: English
title: The Subterraneans
titlecomplete: The Subterraneans
characters: Frank Carmody, Sam Vedder, Leo Percepied, Julian Alexander
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Americana, Fiction, The United States Of America, Romance
ratings_count: 15244
places: San Francisco, California
series: Duluoz Legend
publisher: Grove Weidenfeld