Author: Ellis Amburn
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: kerouac, jack, life, hidden, subterranean
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1999-10-05
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0312206771
ISBN-13: 9780312206772
Drawing upon original interviews and his own relationship with Kerouac, Ellis Amburn reveals an inner man who has not appeared in any previous biography-a man torn by his conflicting desires and beliefs. Subterranean Kerouac has been singled out as one of the most significant biographies to appear in years, and it shows how Kerouac struggled throughout his life with poverty, alcoholism, and his doubts about his own lifestyle of substance abuse, indolence, and promiscuity.
Author: Edie Kerouac-Parker
Publisher: City Lights Books
Keywords: kerouac, jack, life, okay
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0872864642
ISBN-13: 9780872864641
“You have a unique viewpoint from which to write about Jack as no one else has or could write. I feel very deeply that this book must be written. And no one else, I repeat, can write it.”—William S. Burroughs Edie Parker was eighteen years old when she met Jack Kerouac at Columbia University in 1940. A young socialite from Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she had come to New York to study art, and quickly found herself swept up in the excitement and new freedoms that the big city offered a sheltered young woman of that time. Jack Kerouac was also eighteen, attending Columbia on a football schola
Authors:Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters,
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: volume, letters, selected, kerouac
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2000-11-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0140296158
ISBN-13: 9780140296150
The first volume of Jack Kerouac’s selected letters, published in 1995, was hailed as an important and revealing addition to Kerouac scholarship. This second and final volume of letters, written between 1957, the year On the Road was published, to one day before his death in 1969 at age forty-seven, tell Kerouac’s life story through his candid correspondence with friends, confidants, and editors--among them Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Philip Whalen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joyce Johnson, and Malcolm Cowley. Documenting his continuing development as a writer, his travels, love
Authors:Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters,
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: volume, letters, selected, kerouac
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 1996-03-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0140234446
ISBN-13: 9780140234442
The life and craft of Jack Kerouac are traced through some of his most personal and mesmerizing letters. Written between 1940, when he was a freshman in college, and 1956, immediately before his leap into celebrity with the publication of On the Road, these letters offer valuable insights into Kerouac’s family life, friendships with Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, and others.
Authors:Jack Kerouac, Douglas G. Brinkley,
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: kerouac, jack, journals, world, windblown
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2006-04-04
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0143036068
ISBN-13: 9780143036067
Jack Kerouac is best known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels. Yet it is only his private journals, in which he set down the raw material of his life and thinking, that reveal to us the real Kerouac. In Windblown World, distinguished Americanist Douglas Brinkley has gathered a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of Kerouac’s life, 1947 to 1954. Here is Kerouac as a hungry young writer finishing his first novel while forging crucial friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. Truly a self-portrait of the
Authors:Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, kerouac, jack, portable
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2007-08-28
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 014310506X
ISBN-13: 9780143105060
The definitive Kerouac collection-now in Penguin Classics To coincide with the 50th anniversary celebration of On the Road, Penguin Classics republishes this landmark collection. The Portable Jack Kerouac made clear the ambition and accomplishment of Kerouac’s "Legend of Duluoz"-the story of his life told in his many "true story" novels. Featuring selections from Kerouac’s autobiographical fiction, as well as from his poetry, criticism, Buddhist writings, and letters, The Portable Jack Kerouac offers a total immersion in an American master.
Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: kerouac, jack, novels, pic, paris, satori
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1994-01-12
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0802130615
ISBN-13: 9780802130617
Satori in Paris and Pic, two of Jack Kerouac’s last novels, showcase the remarkable range and versatility of his mature talent. Satori in Paris is a rollicking autobiographical account of Kerouac’s search for his heritage in France, and lands the author in his familiar milieu of seedy bars and all-night conversations. Pic is Kerouac’s final novel and one of his most unusual. Narrated by ten-year-old Pictorial Review Jackson in a North Carolina vernacular, the novel charts the adventures of Pic and his brother Slim as they travel from the rural South to Harlem in the 1940s.
