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Doctor Sax (RSMediaItalia Modern Classics Illustrated Edition)

Jack Kerouac

Publisher: Jack Kerouac

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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.
Available since: 12/28/2014.

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