Jack's Memoirs: Off the Road, A Novel - Softcover

Landefeld, Kurt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193396491X ISBN 13: 9781933964911

Publisher: Bottom Dog Press, 2014

Synopsis

If Jack Kerouac had lived, what would he have done and written? Kurt Landefeld opens this door for us in this fine fictional memoir. /
Kurt Landefeld has brought Jack Kerouac back to life in an new, imagined road-journey. In the sustained force of this catapulting novel you will encounter Kerouacs omnivorous mind as it continues to gulp and swallow the big meanings of life and the richness of American literature and culture. ~Peter Balakian, author of Black Dog of Fate
"Against all odds, Kurt Landefeld has located another fold within Jack Kerouac's watery heart. This road loa gogo jolts us one more time toward a deep, intentional, and moral narrative, which is the perennial kernel speaking simultaneously through Landefeld and all the great American angels that memory honors". ~Kenneth Warren, author of Captain Poetry's Sucker Punch: a Guide to the Homeric Punkhole, 1980 -2012

About this title

Book Description:

Jack's Memoirs: Off the Road, A Novel|Jack's Memoirs

About the Author:

Kurt Landefeld was born in San Francisco and, next to Rocky River, Ohio, where he attended high school, considers it his second home. Prior to becoming an award-winning writer and creative director in the advertising industry, he spent several post-college years working as a machinist in and around Toledo.

It was at Bucknell University that he was introduced to Jack Kerouacs writing, as well as the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley and others, declaring, They changed the way America saw itself in the last half of the 20th century. With this novel, he has said, As with millions of others, the lyricism and craziness of On the Road fired my imagination decades ago and continued to do so through my life. As I read more of Jacks novels and poetry, the question of What if he hadnt died so young? has both intrigued and haunted. I decided to try and answer the question myself. What has resulted is a very American story about second chances and the possibility of redemption.

In addition to his own writing, Landefeld helped launch a childrens book publishing company, VanitaBooks, in 2006. He has edited a debut novel from Newburn Drive Press and a volume of poetry. Active in political and community affairs, as well as the local writing scene, he lives with his wife Carol and dog Jack on the shores of Lake Erie in Huron, Ohio.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bottom Dog Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 193396491X
• ISBN 13: 9781933964911
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 590