Looking for Jack Kerouac
| 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.
Looking For Jack Kerouac
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Jack's Book
| 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"A fascinating literary and historical document, the most insightful look at the Beat Generation."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.
Paradise Road
| Author | : Jay Atkinson |
| Publisher | : Wiley |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2010-03-29 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780470237694 |
Noted writer Jay Atkinson recreates Jack Kerouac's legendary On the Road journeys in contemporary North America Jack Kerouac's iconic 1950s novel On the Road is a Beat Generation classic, chronicling the adventures and misadventures of Kerouac's travels crisscrossing North America with Neal Cassady, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and other colorful companions. Now gifted writer Jay Atkinson hits the road to retrace Kerouac's legendary journey today. The author's experiences offer fascinating insights on American culture and society then and now and illuminate his own quest for self-understanding and discovery. Contrasts the life and landscape of Kerouac's 1940s and 1950s America with the realities today Filled with unexpected adventures and strangers encountered on Atkinson's trips to New York, New Orleans, Chicago, Denver, Mexico City, and the California coast Reveals Atkinson's engaging reflections on the search for personal identity and self Other titles by Jay Atkinson: Ice Time (a Publishers Weekly Notable Book of the Year) and Legends of Winter Hill (a Boston Globe bestseller) as well as the novels City in Amber and Caveman Politics Absorbing and beautifully written, Paradise Road is essential reading for Kerouac fans as well as lovers of engaging travel memoirs and anyone interested in American life and culture.
The First Third
| 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.
Jack Kerouac's On the Road
| Author | : Harold Bloom |
| Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FICTION, AMERICAN--HISTORY AND CRITICISM |
| ISBN | : 0791075818 |
Presents ten critical essays published between 1973 and 2001 on Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Kerouac: Selected Letters
| Author | : Jack Kerouac |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 657 |
| Release | : 1996-03-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0140234446 |
It was in his letters that Jack Kerouac set down the raw material that he transmuted into his novels, exploring and refining the spontaneous prose style that became his trademark. The letters in this volume, written between 1940, when Kerouac was a freshman at college, and 1956, immediately before his breathless leap into celebrity with the publication of On the Road, offer invaluable insights into Kerouac's family life, his friendships with Neal and Carolyn Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and William S. Burroughs, his travels, love affairs, and literary apprenticeship. At once fascinating reading and a major addition to Kerouac scholarship, here is a rare portrait of the writer as a young adventurer of immense talent, energy, and ambition in the midst of writing and living an American legend.
Sources of Light
| Author | : Margaret McMullan |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780547076591 |
It's 1962, a year after the death of Sam's father, Sam and her mother must move, along with their very liberal views, to Jackson, Mississippi. Needless to say, they don't quite fit in. As racism ensues, Sam learns to focus with her camera lens to bring forth the social injustice out of the darkness and into the light.
Book of Sketches
| Author | : Jack Kerouac |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 2006-04-04 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780142002155 |
A luminous, intimate, and transcendental glimpse into the mind of Jack Kerouac, one of the most original voices of the twentieth century “Sketching . . . Everything activates in front of you in myriad profusion, you just have to purify your mind and let it pour the words and write with 100% personal honesty.” In 1951, it was suggested to Jack Kerouac by his friend Ed White that he “sketch in the streets like a painter but with words.” In August of the following year, Kerouac began writing down prose poem “sketches” in small notebooks that he kept in the breast pockets of his shirts. For two years he recorded travels, observations, and meditations on art and life as he moved across America and down to Mexico and back. The poems are often strung together so that over the course of several of them, a little story—or travelogue—appears, complete in itself. In 1957, Kerouac sat down with the fifteen handwritten sketch notebooks he had accumulated and typed them into a manuscript called Book of Sketches. Published for the first time, this work offers a detailed portrait of Kerouac at a key period of his literary career.
Book of Blues
| Author | : Jack Kerouac |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 1995-09-01 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1101548800 |
Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these eight extended poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in the music of language, employing the same instrumental blues form that he used to fullest effect in Mexico City Blues, his largely unheralded classic of postmodern literature. Edited by Kerouac himself, Book of Blues is an exuberant foray into language and consciousness, rich with imagery, propelled by rythm, and based in a reverent attentiveness to the moment. "In my system, the form of blues choruses is limited by the small page of the breastpocket notebook in which they are written, like the form of a set number of bars in a jazz blues chorus, and so sometimes the word-meaning can carry from one chorus into another, or not, just like the phrase-meaning can carry harmonically from one chorus to the other, or not, in jazz, so that, in these blues as in jazz, the form is determined by time, and by the musicians spontaneous phrasing & harmonizing with the beat of time as it waves & waves on by in measured choruses." —Jack Kerouac
