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Author | : Barbara Shoup |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2014-09-26 |
Genre | : Bildungsromans |
ISBN | : 9781484435328 |
Two teenagers learn that Jack Kerouac lives in Florida and begin searching for their counterculture hero.
Author | : Barry Gifford |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2012-04-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1101580461 |
"A fascinating literary and historical document, the most insightful look at the Beat Generation." —Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties and Going All the Way First published in 1978, Jack's Book gives us an intimate look into the life and times of the "King of the Beats." Through the words of the close friends, lovers, artists, and drinking buddies who survived him, writers Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee recount Jack Kerouac's story, from his childhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, to his tragic end in Florida at the age of forty-seven. Including anecdotes from an eclectic list of well-known figures such as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gore Vidal, as well as Kerouac's ordinary acquaintances, this groundbreaking oral biography—the first of its kind—presents us with a remarkably insightful portrait of an American legend and the spirit of a generation.
Author | : Jack Kerouac |
Publisher | : City Lights Books |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2001-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780872863804 |
"In the Book of Dreams I just continue the same story but in the dreams I had of the real-life characters I always write about." Excerpt: WALKING THROUGH SLUM SUBURBS of Mexico City I'm stopped by smiling threesome of cats who've disengaged themselves from the general fairly crowded evening street of brown lights, coke stands, tortillas-Unmistakably going to steal my bag-I struggled a little, gave up-Begin communicating with them my distress and in fact do so well they end up just stealing parts of my stuff…. We walk off leaving the bag with someone-arm in arm like a gang to the downtown lights of Letran, across a field- Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was a principal actor in the Beat Generation, a companion of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady in that great adventure. His books include On the Roa, The Dharma Bums, Mexico City Blues, Lonesome Traveler, Scattered Poems, Visions of Cody, Pomes All Sizes, and Scripture of the Golden Eternity.
Author | : George Crane |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2001-05-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0553379089 |
In 1959 a young monk named Tsung Tsai (Ancestor Wisdom) escapes the Red Army troops that destroy his monastery, and flees alone three thousand miles across a China swept by chaos and famine. Knowing his fellow monks are dead, himself starving and hunted, he is sustained by his mission: to carry on the teachings of his Buddhist meditation master, who was too old to leave with his disciple. Nearly forty years later Tsung Tsai — now an old master himself — persuades his American neighbor, maverick poet George Crane, to travel with him back to his birthplace at the edge of the Gobi Desert. They are unlikely companions. Crane seeks freedom, adventure, sensation. Tsung Tsai is determined to find his master's grave and plant the seeds of a spiritual renewal in China. As their search culminates in a torturous climb to a remote mountain cave, it becomes clear that this seemingly quixotic quest may cost both men's lives.
Author | : Neal Cassady |
Publisher | : City Lights Books |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1971-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780872860056 |
Autobiographical writing by the "hero" of Jack Kerouac's On the road.
Author | : Jack Kerouac |
Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Beats (Persons) |
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Author | : Barbara Shoup |
Publisher | : Lacewing Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Automobile travel |
ISBN | : 9781938126475 |
Two teenagers learn that Jack Kerouac lives in Florida and begin searching for their counterculture hero.
Author | : Jack Kerouac |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2000-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101550627 |
An “indispensable” (Chicago Tribune) collection of more than sixty previously unpublished works from Jack Kerouac, ranging from stories and poems to plays and excerpts of novels “Fascinating . . . provides a poignant picture of a life brimming with promise.”—The Boston Globe Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his classic On the Road, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write. Atop an Underwood brings together works that Kerouac wrote before he was twenty-two years old, including an excerpt from The Sea Is My Brother. These writings reveal what Kerouac was thinking, doing, and dreaming during his formative years and reflect his primary literary influences, including the source of his spontaneous prose style. Uncovering a fascinating missing link in Kerouac’s development as a writer, Atop an Underwood is essential reading for Kerouac fans, scholars, and critics alike.
Author | : Jack Kerouac |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2011-04-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101548819 |
A poignant masterpiece of wrenching personal expression from the acclaimed author of On the Road “In many ways, particularly in the lyrical immediacy that is his distinctive glory, this is Kerouac’s best book . . . certainly he has never displayed more ‘gentle sweetness.’”—San Francisco Chronicle Jack Kerouac’s alter ego Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Francisco and an isolated cabin on the California coast where he attempts to renew his spirit and clear his head of madness and alcohol. Only nature seems to restore him to a sense of balance. In the words of Allen Ginsberg, Big Sur “reveals consciousness in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion.”
Author | : Jack Kerouac |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1976-12-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101127570 |
The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation September 5th, 2017 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of On the Road Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naiveté and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.