Jack Kerouac : An Illustrated Biography by David Sandison (1999, Hardcover)

Chicago Review Press, Incorporated

1556523580

9781556523588

383878

Jack Kerouac : an Illustrated Biography

160 Pages

English

1999

Literary

Yes

Biography & Autobiography

David Sandison

Hardcover

0.8 in

30.5 Oz

11 in

8 in

Trade

813.54

No devotee of Jack Kerouac should be without this biography, fully illustrated with over 120 magnificent photographs. Kerouac epitomized the "Beat Generation" writers of the 1950s, and his most famous novel, On the Road, provided a textbook for the bohemian lifestyle that has attracted disenchanted youth ever since. Dubbed "the James Dean of the typewriter, " his own life was as colorful as his books. Featuring a foreword by Carolyn Cassady, Kerouac's lover, wife of Nell

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