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This illustrated biography focuses on one of the major names in post-war popular culture. Kerouac epitomized the "Beat Generation" of 50s America, and his most famous novel "On the Road" provided a textbook for the bohemian life-style that has attracted disenchanted youth ever ince.
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As a journalist in popular culture and modern history, David Sandison has been a columnist and contributor for a number of British and American periodicals. This is his second book on the life of Che Guevara
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YA-Kerouac's frenzied but futile search for meaning-or at least sensation-is documented in near-voyeuristic detail in this disturbing biography. It opens with a brief history of the writer's hometown, Lowell, MA, and his working-class family. YAs follow him to prep school and then Columbia University, where he played football, took up writing, and explored the seamy side of New York before dropping out. Readers meet the many women he loved or at least made love to, including, eventually, the wife of his best friend, Neal Cassady. (She provides the book's foreword.) They learn about the chaotic, uneven creation of his literary style and works, but little about what they say. They watch as his reckless, drug-fueled trips on various roads (literal and metaphorical) become less and less purposeful. Fans of Kerouac who have seen him as a champion of freedom and spontaneity are likely to be sobered and disillusioned by this unsparing look at a talented man whose life was a rush to nowhere. Ironically, the book is beautifully produced, with full-page color reproductions of Kerouac book jackets, interesting black-and-white photographs of varying quality, and outstanding layout and graphics.
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Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Jan Tarasovic, West Springfield High School, Fairfax County, VA
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherHamlyn
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0600597091
- ISBN 13 9780600597094
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages200
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