From the bard of the Beat Generation comes a profoundly moving, autobiographical novel of childhood and first love. "A surprisingly simple and appealing tale of a young student'...
1000 tulosta hakusanalla Jack Kerouac.
"To read On the Road but not Visions of Cody is to take a nice sightseeing tour but to forgo the spectacular rapids of Jack Kerouac's wildest writings."--The New York Times Book...
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46
Jack Kerouac · ISBN 9780140236392
Julkaistu 1994 Kieli englanti nidottu
Written from the vantage point of the psychedelic sixties, this fascinating, "loud-mouthed novel" (The Guardian) paints a portrait of young Kerouac, dedicated and disciplined in...
On the Road: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Jack Kerouac · ISBN 9780140283297
Julkaistu 1999 Kieli englanti nidottu
The legendary novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation, now in a striking new Pengiun Classics Deluxe Edition Inspired by Jack Kerouac's advent...
Written during a critical period of his life, this volume details the spiritual underpinnings of Jack Kerouac's work--"not only his] most intimate effort, but among his most vib...
Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings
Jack Kerouac · ISBN 9780140296396
Julkaistu 2000 Kieli englanti nidottu
An "indispensable" (Chicago Tribune) collection of more than sixty previously unpublished works from Jack Kerouac, ranging from stories and poems to plays and excerpts of novels...
Eight extended poems from the acclaimed author of On the Road and Big Sur--featuring an introduction by Robert Creeley Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, Jack Kerouac...
'It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go' Kerouac on THE TOWN AND THE CITY Kerouac's debut novel is a great coming of age story which can be read as the essen...
Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero Dean Moriarty, a traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the Unite...
Another addition to Penguin Modern Classics' key Kerouac holdings. Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions,...
'The tender and achingly poetic account of a love affair' Lester Bangs, Rolling StoneLeo Percepied, aspiring writer and self-styled freewheeling bum, gravitates to the subterran...
A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discovery, published in Penguin Modern...
On the Road: The Original Scroll
Jack Kerouac · ISBN 9780141189215
Julkaistu 2008 Kieli englanti pokkari
Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Wal...
Never before published in Kerouac's lifetime, Jack Kerouac's Wake Up is a clear and powerful study of the life and works of Siddartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, from the...
From the bard of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Maggie Cassidy is an autobiographical novel of young love, published in Penguin Modern Classics.Though publishers stopped Ma...
'His first novel is a revelation ... the writing is vivid, serious and extraordinary ... wonderful' The Times The Sea is My Brother is Jack Kerouac's very first novel, begun sho...
The tale of Kerouac's alter-ego, Vanity of Duluoz presents Jack Duluoz's high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts and his time at Columbia University on a foo...
An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of...
'A remarkable ear for the cadences of a phrase or sentence, a sense of how to register in words the sheer, sweet flow of things' Guardian This semi-autobiographical tale of Kero...
Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his boyhood imagination, 'my ghost, personal angel, private shadow, secret lover'. In this extraordinary autobio...