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Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac (Paperback)

by Barry Gifford (Editor), Lawrence Lee (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 393 pages
  • Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd; 1st edition (19 Oct 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 086241928X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0862419288
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,121,621 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Synopsis from back cover, 18 Oct 2008
The fascinating, compelling, and tragic story of an American legend, recorded through the conversations of his friends, lovers and rivals. The authors retraced Jack Kerouac's life on the road, talking with the prophets, musicians, poets and socialites who knew him. William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gore Vidal, Gary Snyder, Gregory Corso and many others talk, argue and reminisce of their times with him. Also there are those who knew Kerouac at rest, the lesser-known, the working men, the childhood friends the bar companions, the lovers. It makes for a technicolour portrait of the 'King of the Beats'. We see Jack at Columbia University and in Greenwich Village, speeding acrisss the States with Neal Cassady, at home with his possessive mother, in California drinking wine and promoting Buddhism, and finally dying in Florida at the age of 47, angry and spent, totemised by a generation who took his ideals without his authority and who placed him as the central figure in a time of revolution.
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