Piers of the Homeless Night

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Piers of the Homeless Night is a section of Jack Kerouac’s travel memoir Lonesome Traveler that recounts his experiences living among drifters and the homeless on waterfront piers.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book section
literary work
memoir chapter
associatedWith American counterculture literature
Beat literature
author Jack Kerouac NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
describes life among drifters
life among the homeless
genre autobiographical prose
travel memoir
hasAuthorialPersona Kerouac as wandering traveler
hasSubject informal communities on the margins of society
transient lifestyles
urban nightscapes
includedIn first edition of Lonesome Traveler
language English
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement Beat Generation NERFINISHED
mainCharacter Jack Kerouac NERFINISHED
narrativePerspective first-person
partOf Lonesome Traveler NERFINISHED
publicationEra mid-20th century
setting urban waterfronts
waterfront piers
theme alienation
companionship among drifters
homelessness
poverty
social marginalization
spiritual searching
workChronologyRelativeToAuthor written after On the Road

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Lonesome Traveler hasPart Piers of the Homeless Night