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On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
Book Title Author(s) : Jack Kerouac
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In its time Jack Kerouac's masterpiece was the bible of the Beat Generation, the essential prose accompaniment to Allen Ginsberg's Howl. While it stunned the public and literary establishment when it was published in 1957, it is now recognized as an American classic. With On the Road...Read More

Jack Kerouac: Collected Poems: Library of America Series Jacket
Book Title Author(s) : Jack Kerouac
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Poetry was at the center of Jack Kerouac’s sense of mission as a writer. This landmark edition brings together for the first time all Kerouac’s major poetic works—Mexico City Blues, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, Book of Blues, Pomes All Sizes, Old Angel M...Read More

Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954
Book Title Author(s) : Jack Kerouac
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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...Read More

Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1: 1940-1956
Book Title Author(s) : Jack Kerouac
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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 ...Read More

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
Book Title Author(s) : Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg
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"[An] essential Beat masterpiece." --The Village Voice. Perhaps one of the last great dual correspondences of the twentieth century, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters reveals not only the process of creation of the two most celebrated members of the Beat Generation,...Read More

Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation, And America
Book Title Author(s) : Dennis Mcnally
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Jack Kerouac-"King of the Beats," unwitting catalyst for the '60s counterculture, groundbreaking author-was a complex and compelling man: a star athlete with a literary bent; a spontaneous writer vilified by the New Critics but adored by a large, youthful readership; a devout Catholic but aspiring B...Read More

Gringos in Mexico: An Anthology
Book Title Author(s) : Stephen Crane, William Cullen Bryant, Charles Flandrau, John Reed, Jack London, Katherine Anne Porter, William Spratling, Edner Ferber, Jack Kerouac
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This anthology of twenty-four short stories by 15 American writers is the first of its kind; never before has a collection been devoted entirely to Mexico as it appears in American short fiction. Includes stories by William Cullen Briant * Stephen Crane * John Reed * Jack London * Charles Flandrau ...Read More

You'll Be Okay: My Life With Jack Kerouac
Book Title Author(s) : Edie Kerouac-Parker
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“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. BurroughsEdie Parker was eighteen years old when she met Jack Kerouac at Columbia University in...Read More

Big Sur: (Penguin Ink)
Book Title Author(s) : Jack Kerouac
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Written some time after his best-known works, Big Sur follows Jack Kerouac's comedown from his carefree youth and unwanted fame, presenting his mature confrontation of some of his most troubling emotional issues....Read More

Visions of Cody
Book Title Author(s) : Jack Kerouac
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"What I'm beginning to discover now is something beyond the novel and beyond the arbitrary confines of the story. . . . I'm making myself seek to find the wild form, that can grow with my wild heart . . . because now I know MY HEART DOES GROW." —Jack Kerouac, in a letter to John Clellon Holmes W...Read More

 

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