He took the job not because he has an interest in a career as a forester, but because it affords him the opportunity to sit still and write as few other jobs allow. The novel begins in the Washington mountains, where Jack Duluoz (or Kerouac) has taken a job as a fire lookout at Desolation Peak. The novel features friends who closely resemble real-life Beat Generation writers, including Neal Cassady, William Burroughs, and Alan Ginsberg, the latter known for Howl, the most defining work of the Beat Generation. As Jack, an unpublished poet and novelist, shares his work with other writers, the support of these characters compels him to turn his life fully towards the project of writing. The novel closely traces Kerouac’s own coming-to-consciousness as a writer of the Beat Generation, epitomized by its spontaneous, confessional style, countercultural themes, and emphasis on radical individuality. The novel follows Jack Duluoz who works as a fire control officer at Desolation Peak in the mountains of northwest Washington state. Desolation Angels is a 1965 semi-autobiographical novel by American author Jack Kerouac.
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