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Beat Generation by Jack Kerouac
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Category: General Fiction
Written in 1957, but only recently rediscovered in manuscript form in a New Jersey warehouse, Beat Generation bears the hallmarks of vintage Kerouac: flowing, stream-of-consciousness language, orchestrated with a jazz-like sense of adventure and rhythm. Entertaining and exuberant, and conjuring up a th ...Show more
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to 'get away to solitude again or die', so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast. The resulting novel, in which his autobiographical hero Jac ...Show more
Desolation Peak: Collected Writings by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Literature
"Something will happen to me on Desolation Peak...I can feel it." In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, CA, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking only the Diamond Sutra for reading material, he intended to spend ...Show more
Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Kerouac's first and most important poem, Mexico City Blues, incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous composition. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are all lyrically combined in the loose format of the blues to create an original and moving epic. This editi ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: near fine
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 Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights), Kristen Stew ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S. | Reading Level: good
In the 1950s, underground America was a world of jazz, sex, chill dawns and drugs, for Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat.
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Category: General Fiction | Series: JK
"On the Road" swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassio ...Show more
Piers of the Homeless Night by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart . . . 'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation.
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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 pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.
The Sea is My Brother: The Lost Novel by Jack Kerouac
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Category: General Fiction | Series: JK
"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 shortly after his tour as a merchant sailor in 1942. Lost during his lifetime, it is an intense portrait of friendship and b ...Show more
The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac; Ann Douglas (Introduction by)
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac's early classic, On The Road. Centering on the tempestous breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox--two denizens of the 1950s San Fran ...Show more
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