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Desolation Peak: Collected Writings by Jack Kerouac
Category: Fiction
"Something will happen to me on Desolation Peak...I can feel it." In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, CA, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking only the Diamond Sutra for reading material, he intended to spend ...Show more
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: JK
Published just one year after "On The Road", this is the story of two men engaged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.
Doctor Sax by Jack Kerouac
Category: Fiction | Series: JK
Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his boyhood imagination, 'my ghost, personal angel, private shadow, secret lover'. In this extraordinary autobiographical account of growing up in Lowell, Massachusetts, told through his fictional alter ego Jack Duluoz, he mingles real peo ...Show more
Doctor Sax by Jack Kerouac
Category: Flora & Fauna | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Beautifully rejacketed, Doctor Sax is one of Kerouac's best books -- a vivid, nostalgic tale of one boy's extraordinary childhood. Of all his books, Doctor Sax was the one Jack Kerouac loved the most. He began writing it in 1948, but wrote the greater part of it in 1952, when he was staying in Mexico w ...Show more
En el Camino (On the Road Spanish Edition) by Jack Kerouac
Category: Fiction
On the Road, a book that was the bible and manifesto of the beat generation, has become a "cult novel" and a North American classic. With its unmistaken bop style, this novel is a portrait of an underground America, authentic and uninhibited, far from any kind of establishment.
Haunted Life by Jack Kerouac
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The Haunted Life is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home town. But with the war escalating in Europe and his two closest friends both plotting their escapes, he realiz ...Show more
Haunted Life by Jack Kerouac
Category: Fiction
In 1944, twenty-two year old Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript called The Haunted Life. It turned up thirteen years later in a Columbia University dormitory, and then in 2002, at a Sotheby's auction house. Now, 70 years after Kerouac wrote it, his second novel will be published for the first ...Show more
Heaven and Other Poems by Jack Kerouac; Donald Allen (Editor)
Category: Poetry
Donald Allen, the late great editor of the Evergreen Review at Grove Press and editor of the seminal anthology The New American Poetry, first met Jack Kerouac in 1956 when he and Allen Ginsberg came to visit at his West Village apartment. At the time, Allen was working on the "San Francisco Scene" issue ...Show more
Jack Kerouac by Marilene (EDT) Jack; Phipps-kettlewell Kerouac
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Library of America
Jack Kerouac: Collected Poems by Jack Kerouac, 192 192 192
Category: Poetry
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 ri ...Show more