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Jack Kerouac: Visions of Cody, Visions of Gerard, Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Category: Fiction
The Library of America's edition of the writings of Jack Kerouac opens with Visions of Cody, the ground-breaking work originally written in the early 1950s and published posthumously in 1972, in which Kerouac first treats the material later immortalised in On the Road. Visions of Gerard (1963) is a deep ...Show more
Kerouac - Beat Painting by Jack Kerouac + Sandrina Bandera ed.
Category: Art Books
Kerouac's spontaneous bop poetics in paint: a little-known side of the Beat iconAs well as being the author of novels that defined postwar America and helped launch the counterculture, Jack Kerouac was also a prolific painter and draftsman. But his artistic work--inspired by the artists of the New York ...Show more
Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac
Category: Fiction | Series: Great Kerouac Ser.
A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discovery As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it r ...Show more
Lonesome Traveller by Jack Kerouac
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records life on the road in prose of pure poetry. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers or falling ...Show more
Maggie Cassidy by Jack Kerouac
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: JK
Moodily atmospheric, full of verve and energy, "Maggie Cassidy" is Kerouac's poignant tale of teenage romance in New England. The story of Jack and Maggie, in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to marriage with hope and trepidation, is told with touching simplicity. It skillfully capture ...Show more
Maggie Cassidy by Jack Kerouac
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A touching novel of adolescent love set in a New England mill town. Regarded as one of Kerouac's most accessible novels, it captures both the intensity and the ordinariness of growing up in pre-World War II America.
Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Kerouac's first and most important poem, Mexico City Blues, incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous composition. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are all lyrically combined in the loose format of the blues to create an original and moving epic. This editi ...Show more
Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac
Category: Poetry
Jack Kerouac, who died in 1969 at the age of forty-seven, is renowned as the father of the "beat generation." His eighteen internationally acclaimed books -- including "On the Road, Doctor Sax, The Subterraneans, " and "Lonesome Traveler" -- were important signpost in a new American literature. Here, in ...Show more
ON THE ROAD 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION by KEROUAC JACK
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: JK
A 50th anniversary hardcover edition of Kerouac's classic novel that defined a generation Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as "On the Road." Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kero ...Show more
On The Road the Original Scroll by Kerouac Jack
Category: General Fiction
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of "On the Road," published word for word as Kerouac originally composed it Though Jack Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become "On the Road" as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West Twentieth Street in Manhat ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
In the 1950s, underground America was a world of jazz, sex, chill dawns and drugs, for Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat.