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"Amburn has performed prodigious efforts at hunting down the slowly vanishing sources of oral history surrounding Kerouac...Amburn's harrowing study deserves applause. It faithfully mirrors the writer." --Gary Schmidgall," The Washington Post Book World"
"Beyond sorting out Kerouac's tormented struggle, Amburn has written a work of generous advocacy, forgiving Kerouac's swift slide downward and crediting him with the lyric genius that Kerouac himself and Ginsberg claimed for him in their exalted moments." --Herbert Gold," Los Angeles Times Book Review"
"An absorbing story, at once exhilarating and ineffably sad." --Morris Dickstein," The New York Times Book Review"
"Amburn's crisply drawn and provocative portrait fully conveys the paradoxes of Kerouac's hunger for life, burning creativity, and tragic self-destructiveness." --"Booklist (starred review)"
"Amburn has captured more of the Kerouac essence than many other biographers." --"Charleston Post & Courier"
"Beyond sorting out Kerouac's tormented struggle, Amburn has written a work of generous advocacy, forgiving Kerouac's swift slide downward and crediting him with the lyric genius that Kerouac himself and Ginsberg claimed for him in their exalted moments." --Herbert Gold," Los Angeles Times Book Review"
"An absorbing story, at once exhilarating and ineffably sad." --Morris Dickstein," The New York Times Book Review"
"Amburn's crisply drawn and provocative portrait fully conveys the paradoxes of Kerouac's hunger for life, burning creativity, and tragic self-destructiveness." --"Booklist (starred review)"
"Amburn has captured more of the Kerouac essence than many other biographers." --"Charleston Post & Courier"
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Drawing on interviews and his own relationship with Kerouac Amburn has revealed an inner Kerouac who has not appeared in previous biographies, a man torn by his conflicting beliefs and desires. Kerouac always struggled with poverty, his drinking and doubts about his lifestyle, remaining convinced until his death that his homosexuality was immoral.
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Jack Kerouac's childhood and adolescence were lived at a pitch of romantic intensity and fulfillment rarely equaled in his adulthood, when he became tormented, and often paralyzed, by conflicting sexual passions. Read the first page
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Jack Kerouac's childhood and adolescence were lived at a pitch of romantic intensity and fulfillment rarely equaled in his adulthood, when he became tormented, and often paralyzed, by conflicting sexual passions. Read the first page
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