Jack Kerouac
1) Big Sur
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
vi, 241 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Description of Big Sur Jack Kerouac shot to literary fame in 1957 with the publication of his iconic book of the Beat Generation, On the Road. Kerouac was termed "King of the Beats," a mantle he was entirely uncomfortable with. Along with Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, and several others forged a new literary voice and attitude — it was a movement that often mocked and challenged the American status quo....
Author
Series
Library of America volume 283
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxxiv,466 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 174
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
864 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collector's edition of five works by the late Beat Generation classic writer combines the eminent "On the Road" with the novels, "The Dharma Bums," "The Subterraneans," "Tristessa," and "Lonesome Traveler."
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Written during a critical period of his life, Some of the Dharma is a key volume in Jack Kerouac's vast autobiographical canon. He began writing it in 1953 as reading notes on Buddhism intended for his friend, poet Allen Ginsberg. As Kerouac's Buddhist study and meditation practice intensified, what had begun as notes evolved into a vast and all-encompassing work of nonfiction into which he poured his life, incorporating poems, haiku, prayers, journal...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xxvii, 500 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first collection of letters between the two leading figures of the Beat movement. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg are the most celebrated names of the Beat Generation, linked together not only by their shared artistic sensibility but also by a deep and abiding friendship, one that colored their lives and greatly influenced their writing. Editors Bill Morgan and David Stanford shed new light on this intimate and influential friendship in this fascinating...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 231
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
xxx, 746 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Poetry was at the center of Jack Kerouac's sense of mission as a writer. This landmark edition brings together for the first time all Kerouac's major poetic works--Mexico City Blues, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, Book of Blues, Poems All Sizes, Old Angel Midnight, Book of Haikus--along with a rich assortment of his uncollected poems, six published here for the first time. He wrote poetry in every period of his life, in forms as diverse as...
10) Visions of Cody
Author
Publisher
McGraw Hill
Pub. Date
c1972
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 398 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Physical Desc
x, 193 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In late 1944, aspiring writer Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript titled The Haunted Life. Set in Galloway, a fictionalized version of Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, the coming-of-age story follows Peter Martin, a character based on the author's recently departed friend Sebastian Sampas. At home in the working-class town the summer before his sophomore year at Boston College, Peter finds himself conflicted. Like many Americans,...
13) Book of haikus
Author
Publisher
Penguin Poets
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
xxxix, 200 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 262
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
800 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"All three [novels] were seen by Kerouac as forming part of The Duluoz Legend, a multivolume autobiographical saga recording the major events of the author's life"--Page 761.
