![]() ![]() While Desolation Angels starts off slowly, it helps to convey the sense of loneliness and isolation that Kerouac was feeling while he whiled away the days on top of a mountainside. Apparently, this is because of the objections of some of his publishers. Frequent readers will notice that the aliases that he uses sometimes change from novel to novel – Cody Pomeray, for example, was Dean Moriarty in On the Road. ![]() While his books are, essentially, non-fiction, occasional additions and the changing of the names is enough to qualify the work as semi-autobiographical. Actually, this approach compliments Kerouac’s storytelling well, as the pauses help to make the novel feel more like a conversation.Īs with most of Kerouac’s writing, this was difficult to categorise – in the end, I had to plump for both ‘fiction’ and ‘non-fiction’. ![]() The book is split in to two sections, and these two sections are split further in to dozens of short chapters. Kerouac’s style can be difficult to concentrate on for a long period of time, but it was just right for me to read on the bus on my daily commute. ![]()
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