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.
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.
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
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
Use My Name
Author: James T. Jones
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1550223755
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
A unique biography of Jack Kerouac, which gives a greater understanding of the 'King of the Beats' by exploring the lives of the five people who knew him best: his daughter (Jan Kerouac), wives (Edie Parker, Joan Haverty, Stella Sampas) and nephew (Paul Blake, Jr). Not one of these people seem to have benefited from the connection, as the late Jan Kerouac amply demonstrates in her interview with the author. She discusses at length her 15 months as a prostitute, her own marital problems, her hospitalization, and her life as a writer, including a wild book tour for Baby Driver.
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1550223755
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
A unique biography of Jack Kerouac, which gives a greater understanding of the 'King of the Beats' by exploring the lives of the five people who knew him best: his daughter (Jan Kerouac), wives (Edie Parker, Joan Haverty, Stella Sampas) and nephew (Paul Blake, Jr). Not one of these people seem to have benefited from the connection, as the late Jan Kerouac amply demonstrates in her interview with the author. She discusses at length her 15 months as a prostitute, her own marital problems, her hospitalization, and her life as a writer, including a wild book tour for Baby Driver.
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.
The Last Days of Jan Kerouac
Author: Gerald Nicosia
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692775868
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
This small book is an extract from a biography in progress of the American post-Beat writer Jan Kerouac. This book deals with the final few years of Jan Kerouac's life, when she was working on her last novel "Parrot Fever" and fighting for rights to her father Jack Kerouac's estate.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692775868
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
This small book is an extract from a biography in progress of the American post-Beat writer Jan Kerouac. This book deals with the final few years of Jan Kerouac's life, when she was working on her last novel "Parrot Fever" and fighting for rights to her father Jack Kerouac's estate.
One and Only
Author: Gerald Nicosia
Publisher: Cleis Press
ISBN: 1573449555
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Discusses how Lu Anne Henderson fostered the friendship between the writer Jack Kerouac and her husband Neal Cassady, and became one of the inspirations for Kerouac's most famous work, "On the Road."
Publisher: Cleis Press
ISBN: 1573449555
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Discusses how Lu Anne Henderson fostered the friendship between the writer Jack Kerouac and her husband Neal Cassady, and became one of the inspirations for Kerouac's most famous work, "On the Road."
Kerouac
Author: Gerald Nicosia
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578401409
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A history of Jack Kerouac's growing recognition and literary appreciation, as well as a narrative of the writer's stormy legacy, over the past 25 years (1993-2018). It contains detailed descriptions of the Kerouac Estate lawsuit, the death of Kerouac's daughter Jan, and the massive sell-off of material from Kerouac's archive.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578401409
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A history of Jack Kerouac's growing recognition and literary appreciation, as well as a narrative of the writer's stormy legacy, over the past 25 years (1993-2018). It contains detailed descriptions of the Kerouac Estate lawsuit, the death of Kerouac's daughter Jan, and the massive sell-off of material from Kerouac's archive.
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
Beat Scrapbook
Author: Gerald Nicosia
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781887276368
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Poetry. BEAT SCRAPBOOK proves again, as Lionel Rolfe wrote in the Huffington Post, that "he also is a real poet, very much in the San Francisco tradition of Ferlinghetti, Patchen, Rexroth and Ginsberg." "BEAT SCRAPBOOK is a remarkable celebration of life and a haunting elegy for family, friends and fellow poets. In a truly Beat extension of the great tradition of poetic remembrance, Gerald Nicosia homages the people he has loved and admired in his life. These poems take the reader through loss and grief to a hard-fought reconciliation with mortality, honoring friendship and passionate affection, moving from melancholy to the conferring of blessings, with poignant grace notes. Mourning and rapture merge in these fine portraits of lives lived creatively and on the edge. This is a profoundly moving and validating work. It is nothing less than a poetry of life and love over death."--Ian MacFadyen "The power and force of the Beat movement in American letters and culture, the primary figures, the significant works and the far-ranging influence, have been examined and extolled by many, but in the end there is only Nicosia standing above the rest. As a historian of the heart he is unsurpassed. And now he gives us BEAT SCRAPBOOK, this beautiful poetic addendum to it all where he lets his heart speak in one eulogy after another to the many great souls he has known in this journey. What an outpouring of love and recognition!"--R.B. Morris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781887276368
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Poetry. BEAT SCRAPBOOK proves again, as Lionel Rolfe wrote in the Huffington Post, that "he also is a real poet, very much in the San Francisco tradition of Ferlinghetti, Patchen, Rexroth and Ginsberg." "BEAT SCRAPBOOK is a remarkable celebration of life and a haunting elegy for family, friends and fellow poets. In a truly Beat extension of the great tradition of poetic remembrance, Gerald Nicosia homages the people he has loved and admired in his life. These poems take the reader through loss and grief to a hard-fought reconciliation with mortality, honoring friendship and passionate affection, moving from melancholy to the conferring of blessings, with poignant grace notes. Mourning and rapture merge in these fine portraits of lives lived creatively and on the edge. This is a profoundly moving and validating work. It is nothing less than a poetry of life and love over death."--Ian MacFadyen "The power and force of the Beat movement in American letters and culture, the primary figures, the significant works and the far-ranging influence, have been examined and extolled by many, but in the end there is only Nicosia standing above the rest. As a historian of the heart he is unsurpassed. And now he gives us BEAT SCRAPBOOK, this beautiful poetic addendum to it all where he lets his heart speak in one eulogy after another to the many great souls he has known in this journey. What an outpouring of love and recognition!"--R.B. Morris