Jack Kerouac
1) Big Sur
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Description of Big Sur Jack Kerouac shot to literary fame in 1957 with the publication of his iconic book of the Beat Generation, On the Road. Kerouac was termed "King of the Beats," a mantle he was entirely uncomfortable with. Along with Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, and several others forged a new literary voice and attitude — it was a movement that often mocked and challenged the American status quo....
Author
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
First Riverhead edition.
Language
English
Description
A young man searches for meaning, creates art, and grapples with fame as he traverses the stomping grounds of the Beat Generation--from Mexico City to Manhattan--in Jack Kerouac's semi-autobiographical novel This urgently paced yet deeply introspective novel closely tracks On the Road author Jack Kerouac's own life. Jack Duluoz journeys from the Cascade Mountains to San Francisco, Mexico City, New York, and Tangier. While working as a fire lookout...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 231
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
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 Midnight, Book of Haikus--along with a rich assortment of his uncollected poems, six published here for the first time. He wrote poetry in every period of his life, in forms as diverse as...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In late 1944, under rather mysterious circumstances, aspiring writer Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript titled The Haunted Life. Set in Galloway, a fictionalized version of Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin-a character based on the author's recently departed friend Sebastian Sampas-tackles the pressing issues of the day. At home in the working-class town the summer before his sophomore...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 262
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Part of "The Duluoz Legend, a multivolume autobiographical saga recording the major events of the author's life"--Page 761.
17) Book of haikus
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
An anthology of more than five hundred haiku poems by one of the leaders of the Beat Generation explores Kerouac's experimentation with the concise poetic form.
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