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  1. The Subterraneans is a 1958 novella by Jack Kerouac, based on his romance with Alene Lee, an African-American woman in New York. It is a semi-fictional account of the Beat Generation culture, jazz, and spontaneous prose style.

  2. 'The Subterraneans' is set in San Francisco and the main storyline is of a white man having a sexual relationship with a black woman and its subsequent breakup. The story is part biographical and explores the Bohemian subculture of authors and artists of the time.

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  3. The Subterraneans is a film based on Jack Kerouac's novel about a beatnik writer and his lover. It features a jazz score by André Previn and appearances by Gerry Mulligan and Carmen McRae.

  4. Mar 8, 2012 · The Subterraneans. by. Jack Kerouac. Publication date. 1981. Topics. Beat generation. Publisher. Grove Press.

  5. Leo Percepied, aspiring writer and self-styled freewheeling bum, gravitates to the subterraneans, impoverished intellectuals who haunt the bars of San Francisco. One of them is Mardou Fox,...

  6. Jun 17, 2022 · The Subterraneans - Kindle edition by Kerouac, Jack . Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Subterraneans.

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  8. Jan 1, 1981 · An even more compressed melange of bop-soul imagery and romantic assemblage of hip 50s characters than On the Road, The Subterraneans smokes with a desperate fury and good-time fervor rushing to its concupiscent apocalypse with all the bittersweet sensitivity Kerouac can muster.

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