After spending fifteen days with Terry, the protagonist joins Stan Shepherd in a marijuana-filled sojourn to Mexico City, years after he leaves New York City for Denver to meet up with Dean Moriarty.
The mountain ranges around one city in this novel are described as "papier-mache" in a poem about the "doldrums" of that city, home to a staging of Fidelio attended by the main characters. One character takes up a job at a parking garage and another works as a security guard in a barracks for construction workers. The protagonist tries and fails to seduce the sex-addicted Rita Bettencourt, but exercises restraint with Lee Ann, the sulky girlfriend of his prep school friend (*) Remi Boncoeur. After spending fifteen days with Terry, the protagonist joins Stan Shepherd in a marijuana-filled sojourn to Mexico City, years after he leaves New York City for Denver to meet up with Dean Moriarty. Neal Cassady and William S Boroughs are fictionalized in, for 10 points, what autobiographical novel about Sal Paradise, written by Jack Kerouac?
The mountain ranges around one city in this novel are described as "papier-mache" in a poem about the "doldrums" of that city, home to a staging of Fidelio attended by the main characters.
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