Author: Robert O'Brian
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105318370
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Jack Kerouac's Confession chronicles the journey of a burnt-out poet-journalist whose descent into madness and desperation is interrupted when he re-discovers a long-forgotten connection with the young Jack Kerouac. The reader is taken on a riveting road trip of white-hot passion, betrayal and near-death, leading finally to Lowell, Massachusetts, Kerouac's hometown, where the poet hears Jack Kerouac's confession and learns the world's greatest secret.
Jack Kerouac's Confession
Author: Robert O'Brian
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105318370
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Jack Kerouac's Confession chronicles the journey of a burnt-out poet-journalist whose descent into madness and desperation is interrupted when he re-discovers a long-forgotten connection with the young Jack Kerouac. The reader is taken on a riveting road trip of white-hot passion, betrayal and near-death, leading finally to Lowell, Massachusetts, Kerouac's hometown, where the poet hears Jack Kerouac's confession and learns the world's greatest secret.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105318370
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Jack Kerouac's Confession chronicles the journey of a burnt-out poet-journalist whose descent into madness and desperation is interrupted when he re-discovers a long-forgotten connection with the young Jack Kerouac. The reader is taken on a riveting road trip of white-hot passion, betrayal and near-death, leading finally to Lowell, Massachusetts, Kerouac's hometown, where the poet hears Jack Kerouac's confession and learns the world's greatest secret.
Subterranean Kerouac
Author: Ellis Amburn
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312206772
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
In this first biography of Jack Kerouac to fully portray the intense inner life that inspired his work, Kerouac's last editor addresses the writer's homosexual relationships with men, and sheds a new light on their profound impact upon his life. of photos.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312206772
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
In this first biography of Jack Kerouac to fully portray the intense inner life that inspired his work, Kerouac's last editor addresses the writer's homosexual relationships with men, and sheds a new light on their profound impact upon his life. of photos.
Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend
Author: James T. Jones
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809322633
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Noting that even casual readers recognize family relationships as the basis for Kerouac's autobiographical prose, Jones discusses these relationships in terms of Freud's notion of the Oedipus complex."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809322633
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Noting that even casual readers recognize family relationships as the basis for Kerouac's autobiographical prose, Jones discusses these relationships in terms of Freud's notion of the Oedipus complex."--BOOK JACKET.
Pic
Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Safe in Heaven Dead
Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Long, Slow Death of Jack Kerouac
Author: Jim Christy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
One of the most widely read and influential American writers of the 20th century, Jack Kerouac is often misunderstood. This study examines the confessions of a 20th-century St. Augustine and traces the progress of a great pilgrim through the decline of modern civilization. Christy focuses on the last ten years of Kerouac's life, from the influential New York Times rave review of On the Road until his death in 1969, a period in Kerouac's life that until now has been dismissed by most biographers as nothing more than a drunken decline. Christy asserts that Kerouac was a madman and mystic whose last days were wilder and more fascinating than any of the adventures he wrote about. As Christy reveals, in the last decade of his life Jack Kerouac was racing to obtain his goal of being “safe in heaven dead.”
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
One of the most widely read and influential American writers of the 20th century, Jack Kerouac is often misunderstood. This study examines the confessions of a 20th-century St. Augustine and traces the progress of a great pilgrim through the decline of modern civilization. Christy focuses on the last ten years of Kerouac's life, from the influential New York Times rave review of On the Road until his death in 1969, a period in Kerouac's life that until now has been dismissed by most biographers as nothing more than a drunken decline. Christy asserts that Kerouac was a madman and mystic whose last days were wilder and more fascinating than any of the adventures he wrote about. As Christy reveals, in the last decade of his life Jack Kerouac was racing to obtain his goal of being “safe in heaven dead.”
The Sea Is My Brother
Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306821257
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
As a precursor to such landmark works as "On the Road "and "The Dharma Bums," this is an important formative work that bears all the hallmarks of classic Kerouac: the search for spiritual meaning in a materialistic world, and spontaneous travel as the true road to freedom.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306821257
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
As a precursor to such landmark works as "On the Road "and "The Dharma Bums," this is an important formative work that bears all the hallmarks of classic Kerouac: the search for spiritual meaning in a materialistic world, and spontaneous travel as the true road to freedom.
The Role of Jack Kerouac’s Identity in the Development of his Poetics
Author: Stefano Maffina
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1471706850
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
This work revolves round the analysis of Jack Kerouac's complex identity and his main artistic inspirations. Even though the writer was born in Lowell, MA, he was raised in a Franco-American family with strong bonds with the Quebec region. The resultant split identity led to deep existential doubts that Kerouac was never able to overcome. However, the awareness of his cultural dichotomy proved extremely important for his own work. Indeed, the Beat author was able to reach an original poetics which was inspired by both American and French writers. Despite Kerouac's innovative style and writing method, an analysis of the artists who influenced his work could help contextualize and better understand his literary and linguistic genius.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1471706850
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
This work revolves round the analysis of Jack Kerouac's complex identity and his main artistic inspirations. Even though the writer was born in Lowell, MA, he was raised in a Franco-American family with strong bonds with the Quebec region. The resultant split identity led to deep existential doubts that Kerouac was never able to overcome. However, the awareness of his cultural dichotomy proved extremely important for his own work. Indeed, the Beat author was able to reach an original poetics which was inspired by both American and French writers. Despite Kerouac's innovative style and writing method, an analysis of the artists who influenced his work could help contextualize and better understand his literary and linguistic genius.
Jacked Up
Author: Erica Sage
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510730060
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Saved! meets Tim Federle with just a dash of A.S. King in this hilarious and poignant debut about a teen stuck at Jesus camp. It’s bad enough that Nick’s sister is dead, and, in some bizarre attempt to force him to confront his grief, his parents are shipping him off to Jesus camp. But he’s also being followed around by Jack Kerouac, who’s incredibly annoying for a genius. If arguing with a dead beat poet doesn’t qualify him for antipsychotics already, Nick’s pretty sure Eden Springs is going to drive him insane. The campers ride donkeys into the desert, snap selfies with counselors dressed as disciples, and replace song lyrics with Bible verses. And somehow, only Nick seems to find this strange. Worst of all is the PC Box, into which the campers gleefully place daily prayers and confessions. With Jack nagging him to do it, Nick scribbles down his darkest secret—about his sister’s death—and drops it in the box. But then the box is stolen, with Nick’s secret inside of it. And when campers’ confessions start appearing around the camp, Nick is desperate to get the box back—before the world learns the truth about what he did. The truth he can’t even face himself. Laugh-out-loud funny, surreal, and insightful, this is an unforgettable novel about the strangeness of life, death, and grief—and the even stranger things people do to cope.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510730060
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Saved! meets Tim Federle with just a dash of A.S. King in this hilarious and poignant debut about a teen stuck at Jesus camp. It’s bad enough that Nick’s sister is dead, and, in some bizarre attempt to force him to confront his grief, his parents are shipping him off to Jesus camp. But he’s also being followed around by Jack Kerouac, who’s incredibly annoying for a genius. If arguing with a dead beat poet doesn’t qualify him for antipsychotics already, Nick’s pretty sure Eden Springs is going to drive him insane. The campers ride donkeys into the desert, snap selfies with counselors dressed as disciples, and replace song lyrics with Bible verses. And somehow, only Nick seems to find this strange. Worst of all is the PC Box, into which the campers gleefully place daily prayers and confessions. With Jack nagging him to do it, Nick scribbles down his darkest secret—about his sister’s death—and drops it in the box. But then the box is stolen, with Nick’s secret inside of it. And when campers’ confessions start appearing around the camp, Nick is desperate to get the box back—before the world learns the truth about what he did. The truth he can’t even face himself. Laugh-out-loud funny, surreal, and insightful, this is an unforgettable novel about the strangeness of life, death, and grief—and the even stranger things people do to cope.
The Joan Anderson Letter
Author: Neal Cassady
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913606336
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
A letter from Neal Cassady to his best friend and travelling companion Jack (On the Road) Kerouac.Kerouac received the letter from Cassady in 1950 and later told the Paris Review that it had inspired 'On theRoad' along with his new literary style; referring to it as 'the greatest piece of writing I ever saw'. The energy ofCassady's fast-paced, free-flowing, confessional prose pulsates through the 15,000 word missive; bringinggloriously to life the personality of one of the most high profile figures in literary, and Beat movement, history.This incredibly illusive artefact, which describes in explicit detail his relationship with Joan Anderson ('aperfect beauty of loveliness that I forgot everything else'), had been missing for 60 years when it was discovered in an attic in Oakland, USA, in 2014. Legal machinations over its ownership ensued and it has not been published in its entirety...until now.This much-anticipated letter is now reproduced in full, with an introduction by Beat scholar ProfessorA. Robert Lee. This jewel of Beat history also includes a range of photographs of the writers and a raresepia drawing of Neal by his former wife, writer and artist Carolyn Cassady.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913606336
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
A letter from Neal Cassady to his best friend and travelling companion Jack (On the Road) Kerouac.Kerouac received the letter from Cassady in 1950 and later told the Paris Review that it had inspired 'On theRoad' along with his new literary style; referring to it as 'the greatest piece of writing I ever saw'. The energy ofCassady's fast-paced, free-flowing, confessional prose pulsates through the 15,000 word missive; bringinggloriously to life the personality of one of the most high profile figures in literary, and Beat movement, history.This incredibly illusive artefact, which describes in explicit detail his relationship with Joan Anderson ('aperfect beauty of loveliness that I forgot everything else'), had been missing for 60 years when it was discovered in an attic in Oakland, USA, in 2014. Legal machinations over its ownership ensued and it has not been published in its entirety...until now.This much-anticipated letter is now reproduced in full, with an introduction by Beat scholar ProfessorA. Robert Lee. This jewel of Beat history also includes a range of photographs of the writers and a raresepia drawing of Neal by his former wife, writer and artist Carolyn Cassady.