Kerouac : a biography / by Ann Charters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charters, Ann, 1936-

Contributor:

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.

Kerouac, Jack.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Beats (Persons)--Biography.

Beats (Persons).

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Charters, Ann (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

416 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, [1994]

Summary:

Now that Kerouac's major novel, On the Road is accepted as an American classic, academic critics are slowly beginning to catch up with his experimental literary methods and examine the dozen books comprising what he called 'the legend of Duluoz.' Nearly all of his books have been in print internationally since his death in 1969, and his writing has been discovered and enjoyed by new readers throughout the world. Kerouac's view of the promise of America, the seductive and lovely vision of the beckoning open spaces of our continent, has never been expressed better by subsequent writers, perhaps because Kerouac was our last writer to believe in America's promise--and essential innocence--as the legacy he would explore in his autobiographical fiction.

Contents:

Foreword / by Allen Ginsberg.

1922-1951.

1951-1956.

1957-1959.

Chronology.

Notes:

Originally published: San Francisco : Straight Arrow Books, 1973. With new introd.

Spine has emblem of St. Martin's Griffin.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-403) and index.

ISBN:

0312113471

9780312113476

OCLC:

30624959

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