DOCTOR SAX AND THE GREAT WORLD SNAKE: KEROUAC'S FORGOTTEN OPUS
Written in Mexico 1952 but not published until 1959, Dr. Sax is Jack Kerouac’s most enigmatic novel. Incorporating themes from New England heroes Melville and Hawthorne, Kerouac revisits boyhood scenes in Lowell, Mass., in rich, hallucinogenic prose. The narrative’s unifying event is the Flood of 1936, when the Great Snake of the Merrimac River swelled to record levels and inundated the mills, homes, businesses and lives of the working-class city. Dr. Sax is an acquired taste, and Cat de Leo...
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