Kerouac: Visions of Rocky Mount - Softcover

Dorfner, John J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0934953295 ISBN 13: 9780934953290

Publisher: Cooper Street Publications, 2001

Synopsis

Kerouac: Visions of Rocky Mount...describes Kerouac's life and times in Rocky Mount, Big Easonburg Woods, North Carolina. The book is full of black and white photographs of scenes right out of The Dharma Bums and other books that Kerouac published in his lifetime. Also photographs of the house that Neal Cassady pulled up to with the new muddy Hudson... Christmas 1948. This is described in On the Road, but Kerouac called the town Testament, VA. Also the cottage Kerouac wrote Visions of Gerard is covered in the book.

About this title

About the Author

John J Dorfner was born in Kingston, New York, in 1952. He grew up in Stone Ridge, a small town in the heart of The Catskill Mountains. After serving in the Navy where he started writing by keeping a journal, he hitch-hiked across the country, ending his travels in Portland, Oregon. Finding employment at a book distributor, he was introduced to the novels of another writer who roamed America's highways...Kerouac. He currently resides in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife and two daughters.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cooper Street Publications
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0934953295
• ISBN 13: 9780934953290
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 72