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Doctor Sax (Doctor Sax: Faust Part Three) is a novel by Jack Kerouac published in 1959. Kerouac wrote it in 1952 while living with William S. Burroughs in Mexico City. The novel was written quickly in the improvisatory style Kerouac called 'spontaneous prose.'
First publish date: 1977
Genre: Literary Fiction/Experimental Fiction
Authors: Jack Kerouac
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