Synopsis
Very Good Hardcover San Francisco, CA: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. Book. Very Good. Buckram. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Tan buckram. Library treatments but never circulated, with stamps on top text block edge, lower main title, and upper rear flyleaf inked out, otherwise unmarked as such. Dust jacket shows call label mounted on lower spine, appears otherwise immaculate in period mylar; unfortunately, the mylar is glued to both front and rear pastedowns. 419 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographs. A very nice copy for the reader who doesn't object to the relatively modest library treatments..
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About the Author
Ann Charters received her B.A. at Berkeley and her Ph.D. at Columbia. She first met Kerouac at a poetry reading in Berkeley in 1956, and compiled a comprehensive bibliography of his work in 1967. A professor of English at the University of Connecticut, she is also the editor of Selected Letters of Jack Kerouac and the Portable Kerouac Reader, and the author of Beats and Company: Portrait of a Literary Generation.
Review
"It is about men and ideas that changed everything. That's reason enough to read it."--The New York Times
"This biography becomes almost a novel in itself. The darkly intense, handsome young man, the gypsy wanderer, hero and prophet to everyone but himself...Written with a beautiful combination of toughness and love, of daring insight and honesty, it is a worthy monument to a troubled man."--The Los Angeles Times
"Behind the 'crazy rebel' of the novels who inspired a whole generation to go hitchhiking across America in search of 'the myth of the rainy night' lay a life of insecurity and wretched loneliness...a duality perceptively illustrated by Ann Charters in her lucid, well-researched biography."--The Sunday Telegraph
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