Doctor Sax (from the writer of 'On the Road')

Written in Paris in 1952, Doctor Sax is Jack Kerouac’s vivid autobiographical novel depicting his childhood alter ego, Jack Duluoz, growing up in Lowell, Massachusetts during the Great Depression. The narrative blends nostalgic memories of family life, Catholic upbringing, and local floods with fantastical dreams of "Doctor Sax"—a shadowy, cape-wearing phantom who roams the dark corners of the town fighting the mythic "Great World Serpent." Using his signature spontaneous prose, Kerouac captures the innocence, anxieties, and imaginative landscape of boyhood transitioning into adolescence.