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VISIONS OF CODY by KEROUAC JACK
Category: Fiction | Series: JK
Written during 1951-52, this novel was an underground legend by the time it was finally published in 1972. Written in an experimental form, Kerouac created the ultimate account of his voyages with Neal Cassady, which he captured in a different form for On the Road.
VISIONS OF GERARD by KEROUAC JACK
Category: Fiction
"[A] pleasant and underrated surprise . . . [Visions of Gerard] has a winning simplicity and sweetness." --The Washington Post The first book in Kerouac's Duluoz Legend, a novella detailing the writer's early life as refracted through the prism of the untimely loss of his brother Unique among Jack Kero ...Show more
Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The tale of Kerouac's alter-ego, "Vanity of Duluoz" presents Jack Duluoz's high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Just as Jack's glamorous new adult life begins, so does World War II, and he joins the US Navy to travel t ...Show more
Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, "Visions of Cody" is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays. Transcribing taped conversations between members of their group as they took drugs and drank, this boo ...Show more
Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Unique among Jack Kerouac's novels, Visions of Gerardfocuses on the scenes and sensations of childhood - -the wisdom, anguish, intensity, innocence, evil, insight, suffering, delight, and shock -- as they were revealed in the short tragic-happy life of his saintly brother, Gerard. Set in Kerouac's home ...Show more
Wake Up : A life of the Buddha by Jack Kerouac
Category: Fiction
Never before published in Kerouac's lifetime, this 1955 biography of the founder of Buddhism is a clear and powerful study of Siddartha Gautama's life and works. "Wake Up" recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha's royal upbringing and his father's wish to protect him from all human suffering, despite a ...Show more
Windblown World: The Journals by Jack Kerouac
Category: Biography Memoir
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 thoughts. In Windblown World Douglas Brinkley has gathered a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal moments of Keroua ...Show more