The portable Jack Kerouac
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(1 ratings)625 pages2007Penguin BooksISBN 9780143105060
Beat generationLiterary collectionsBeats (Persons)Kerouac, jack, 1922-1969American fiction, history and criticismLiterarycollections
About this book
The collection includes excerpts, chronologically arranged, from novels which make up the Legend of Duluoz. Kerouac appears as a child in Doctor Sax, as a teenager in Maggie Cassidy, as a young man in On the Road, as a road-wary traveler in Tristessa, as a committed seeker of truth in the Dharma Bums, and as a man at the end of the road in Satori in Paris.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Published
- 2007
- Pages
- 625
- ISBN
- 9780143105060
- Language
- en
About Unknown Author
Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian ancestry. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements.
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