num_pages: 111
description: The Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living amongst them is Leo, an aspiring writer, and Mardou, half-Indian, half-Negro, beautiful and neurotic. Their bitter-sweet and ill-starred love affair sees Kerouac at his most evocative. Many regard this as being Kerouac's most touching and tender book.
language: English
title: Subterraneans
titlecomplete: Subterraneans
characters: Leo Percepied, Julian Alexander, Sam Vedder, Frank Carmody
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Americana, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 15245
places: San Francisco, California
series: Duluoz Legend
publisher: Grove Press