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Jack Kerouac,William S. Burroughs
In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, then still unknown writers, were both arrested following a murder: one of their friends had stabbed another and then come to them for…
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Jack Kerouac
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road is now published as Kerouac originally composed it: rougher, wilder, and more provocative than the official work that was released, heavily…
Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment…
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[A] pleasant and underrated surprise … [Visions of Gerard] has a winning simplicity and sweetness. -The Washington Post
The first book in Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend, a novella detailing the writer’s…
Available for the first time in paperback, a revealing and fascinating work of experimental fiction by Kerouac, incorporating poems, haiku, prayers, journal entries, sketches, and more.
These meditations, zen koans, and prose poems express Kerouac’s beatific trip to peace and joy through oneness with the universal.
Barry Miles
In conformist 1950s America, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road was greeted with both delirium and dismay, but in Kerouac’s hunt for the big experience and his longing for greatness, he…
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Douglas Brinkley
Gathers a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period in Jack Kerouac’s life - 1947 to 1954. This title presents Kerouac as a hungry young writer finishing his…
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Published just one year after On The Road , this is the story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the…
Follows two young men engaged in a passionate search for dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen way, which takes them climbing into the high…
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A coming of age story, which draws on the author’s New England childhood.
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 United…
