Author: Aurelie Sheehan
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564782625
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Fifteen stories on women. In The Dove, a wealthy widow pressured by her family to marry a rich man spends life fixated on an affair she had a week before her wedding, in Look at the Moon, a woman reflects: "I've had my heart broken a few times. I've been in love with the most garlicky individuals. I fact, I have a fascination with the mediocre."
Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant
Author: Aurelie Sheehan
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564782625
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Fifteen stories on women. In The Dove, a wealthy widow pressured by her family to marry a rich man spends life fixated on an affair she had a week before her wedding, in Look at the Moon, a woman reflects: "I've had my heart broken a few times. I've been in love with the most garlicky individuals. I fact, I have a fascination with the mediocre."
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564782625
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Fifteen stories on women. In The Dove, a wealthy widow pressured by her family to marry a rich man spends life fixated on an affair she had a week before her wedding, in Look at the Moon, a woman reflects: "I've had my heart broken a few times. I've been in love with the most garlicky individuals. I fact, I have a fascination with the mediocre."
Baby Driver
Author: Jan Kerouac
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9781560251842
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Just as Jack Kerouac captured the beat of the '50s, his daughter captured the rhythm of the generation that followed. With a graceful, often disturbing detachment and a spellbinding gift for descriptive imagery, Jan Kerouac explores the tortured, freewheeling soul of a woman on her own road. From an adolescence of LSD, detention homes, probation, pregnancy, and a stillbirth in the Mexican tropics at age 15; to the peace movement in Haight-Ashbury and Washington state; to traveling by bus through Central America with a madman for a lover, Baby Driver moves with the force of a tropical storm.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9781560251842
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Just as Jack Kerouac captured the beat of the '50s, his daughter captured the rhythm of the generation that followed. With a graceful, often disturbing detachment and a spellbinding gift for descriptive imagery, Jan Kerouac explores the tortured, freewheeling soul of a woman on her own road. From an adolescence of LSD, detention homes, probation, pregnancy, and a stillbirth in the Mexican tropics at age 15; to the peace movement in Haight-Ashbury and Washington state; to traveling by bus through Central America with a madman for a lover, Baby Driver moves with the force of a tropical storm.
The Anxiety of Everyday Objects
Author: Aurelie Sheehan
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
An original, witty, compulsively readable tale for any woman who has struggled with creative yearning and duty to the daily grind. In her absorbing debut novel, Sheehan's depiction of the working girl's life in the big city is as charming as it is inspiring.
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
An original, witty, compulsively readable tale for any woman who has struggled with creative yearning and duty to the daily grind. In her absorbing debut novel, Sheehan's depiction of the working girl's life in the big city is as charming as it is inspiring.
Nobody's Wife
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
It was 1950. Strikingly beautiful, 20-year-old Joan Haverty had arrived in New York and was working as a seamstress. During a deteriorating attempt to reconcile with her lover, fate intervened when Joan heard a stranger's voice calling up to her loft from the street below -- It was Jack Kerouac, needing directions to a party Thus began Joan's stormy romance with and brief marriage to the leather-jacketed archangel of the Beat Generation. She bore his tirades, his passion, his troubled poetic genius, and also bore his child while Kerouac was writing his great signature novel, On the Road.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
It was 1950. Strikingly beautiful, 20-year-old Joan Haverty had arrived in New York and was working as a seamstress. During a deteriorating attempt to reconcile with her lover, fate intervened when Joan heard a stranger's voice calling up to her loft from the street below -- It was Jack Kerouac, needing directions to a party Thus began Joan's stormy romance with and brief marriage to the leather-jacketed archangel of the Beat Generation. She bore his tirades, his passion, his troubled poetic genius, and also bore his child while Kerouac was writing his great signature novel, On the Road.
Angelheaded Hipster
Author: Steve Turner
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Forty years after the publication of On the Road Kerouac has won the critical recognition he long deserved, inspiring passionate interest from a new generation of readers. This lively, visual biography highlights Kerouac's impact on the 1950s and 1960s and tracks his relentless devotion to his work, revealing the spirituality that was at its core. 150 color and b&w photos.
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Forty years after the publication of On the Road Kerouac has won the critical recognition he long deserved, inspiring passionate interest from a new generation of readers. This lively, visual biography highlights Kerouac's impact on the 1950s and 1960s and tracks his relentless devotion to his work, revealing the spirituality that was at its core. 150 color and b&w photos.
Off the Road
Author: Carolyn Cassady
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468305719
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
This memoir by the woman at the center of the Beat movement is “a great book as well as a wonderful autobiography” (The Washington Post Book World). Written by the woman who loved them all—as wife of Cassady, lover of Kerouac, and friend of Ginsberg—this riveting and intimate memoir spans one of the most vital eras in twentieth-century literature and culture, including the explosive successes of Kerouac’s On the Road and Ginsberg’s Howl, the flowering of the Beat movement, and the social revolution of the 1960s. Artist, writer, and designer Carolyn Cassady reveals a side of Neal Cassady rarely seen—that of husband and father, a man who craved respectability, yet could not resist the thrills of a wilder, and ultimately more destructive, lifestyle. “To the familiar history of the Beat generation, Carolyn Cassady adds a proprietary chapter marked with newness, self-exposure, love and poignancy.” —Publishers Weekly “Rich with gossip, historically significant photographs, intimate memories, [and] unpublished letters.” —The New York Times “A poignant recollection—truthful, coarse, and inviting—teeming with the spirit of the men who inspired and symbolized the dreams of a generation.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468305719
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
This memoir by the woman at the center of the Beat movement is “a great book as well as a wonderful autobiography” (The Washington Post Book World). Written by the woman who loved them all—as wife of Cassady, lover of Kerouac, and friend of Ginsberg—this riveting and intimate memoir spans one of the most vital eras in twentieth-century literature and culture, including the explosive successes of Kerouac’s On the Road and Ginsberg’s Howl, the flowering of the Beat movement, and the social revolution of the 1960s. Artist, writer, and designer Carolyn Cassady reveals a side of Neal Cassady rarely seen—that of husband and father, a man who craved respectability, yet could not resist the thrills of a wilder, and ultimately more destructive, lifestyle. “To the familiar history of the Beat generation, Carolyn Cassady adds a proprietary chapter marked with newness, self-exposure, love and poignancy.” —Publishers Weekly “Rich with gossip, historically significant photographs, intimate memories, [and] unpublished letters.” —The New York Times “A poignant recollection—truthful, coarse, and inviting—teeming with the spirit of the men who inspired and symbolized the dreams of a generation.” —San Francisco Chronicle
The Road
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307267458
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). • From the bestselling author of The Passenger A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307267458
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). • From the bestselling author of The Passenger A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
Pic
Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
ISBN:
Category : Beats (Persons)
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
ISBN:
Category : Beats (Persons)
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Trainsong
Author: Jan Kerouac
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9781560251651
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Poems and reminiscences accompany the author's chronicle her picaresque experiences on the road to self-discovery, from Colorado, to Europe, to Mexico, and back again
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9781560251651
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Poems and reminiscences accompany the author's chronicle her picaresque experiences on the road to self-discovery, from Colorado, to Europe, to Mexico, and back again
Jan Kerouac
Author: Gerald Nicosia
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615245546
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615245546
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description