Doctor Sax Mary Shelley Alice Munro pinpoints the moment

Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter

After working all day tidying and replanting her garden

no one with a motive

he quickly realizes he's dealing with a woman--a very tough

Doctor Sax Mary Shelley Alice Munro pinpoints the momentIn this haunting novel of intensely felt adolescence, Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French Canadian boy growing up, as Kerouac himself did, in the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. Dr. Sax, with his flowing cape, slouch hat, and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons that populate Jacks fantasy world. Deftly mingling memory and dream, Kerouac captures the accents and texture of his boyhood in Lowell as