num_pages: 397
description: Desolation Angels, published in 1965, yet written years earlier around the time On the Road was in the process of publication, is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, which makes up part of his Duluoz Legend. According to the book's foreword, the opening section of the novel is almost directly taken from the journal he kept when he was a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade mountains of Washington state. Much of the psychological struggle which the novel's protagonist, Jack Duluoz, undergoes in the novel reflects Kerouac's own increasing disenchantment with the Buddhist philosophy with which he had previously been fascinated.
language: English
title: Desolation Angels
titlecomplete: Desolation Angels
characters: Jack Duluoz, Cody Pomeray, Bull Hubbard, Raphael Urso, Harry Garden, Irwin Garden
genres: 20th Century, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Travel, Literature, Classics, Fiction, Contemporary, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 11403
places: The United States of America, Mexico City (México City)
series: Duluoz Legend
publisher: Flamingo