Kerouac, Jack
Summary: Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Records 1990
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Summary: Kerouac's quintessential novel of America and the Beat Generation 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 compassion for humanity, and his sense...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin USA, Inc. 1976
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Kerouac, Jack
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Poets 2003
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Summary: Two young men search for Truth the Zen way in California and Washington State.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1986
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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Summary: Poetry was at the center of Jack Kerouac's sense of mission as a writer. This landmark edition brings together for the first time all Kerouac's major poetic works--Mexico City Blues, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, Book of Blues, Poems All Sizes, Old Angel Midnight, Book of Haikus--along with a rich assortment of his uncollected poems, six published here for the first time. He wrote...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
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Summary: The author reads his poetry. Includes previously unpublished "Washington D.C. Blues" and some tracks of Jack singing the swing thing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rykodisc 1999
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Summary: In On the Road and other iconic works, Jack Kerouac created a quintessentially American voice and a revolutionary prose style. This remarkable gathering of previously unpublished writings reveals as neverbefore the extraordinary literary journey that led to his phenomenal success a journey with deep roots inthe language and culture of Kerouac's French Canadian childhood. Edited and published...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016
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Summary: Though raised Catholic, in the early 1950s Jack Kerouac became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that would have a profound impact on his ideas of spirituality and their expression in his writing. Published for the first time in book form, this is Kerouac's retelling of the story of Prince Siddhartha Gautama, who as a young man abandoned his wealthy family and comfortable home for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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Contents: American haikus (10:01) -- Hard hearted old farmer (2:13) -- The last hotel & Some of the Dharma (3:49) --Poems from the unpublished "Book of the blues" (14:08) -- Old western movies (6:41) -- Conclusion of the railroad earth (10:04).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Word Beat 1990
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Summary: "In late 1944, under rather mysterious circumstances, aspiring writer Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript titled The Haunted Life. Set in Galloway, a fictionalized version of Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin-a character based on the author's recently departed friend Sebastian Sampas-tackles the pressing issues of the day. At home in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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Summary: The novella, set in Galloway, a fictionalized version of Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin-a character based on the author's recently departed friend Sebastian Sampas-tackles the pressing issues of the day. At home in the working-class town the summer before his sophomore year at Boston College, Peter finds himself conflicted. Like many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1990
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Contents: The legend of Duluoz -- Poetry -- On spontaneous prose -- The modern spontaneous method -- On Bop and the Beat Generation -- On Buddhism -- Selected letters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2007
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Summary: Presents selections of poetry by the beat poet, Jack Kerouac.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1997
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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Summary: "In 1951, it was suggested to Jack Kerouac by his friend Ed White that he "sketch in the streets like a painter but with words." In August of the following year, Kerouac began writing down prose poem "sketches" in small notebooks that he kept in the breast pockets of his shirts. For two years he recorded travels, observations, and meditations on art and life as he moved across America and down...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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Summary: The first collection of letters between the two leading figures of the Beat movement. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg are the most celebrated names of the Beat Generation, linked together not only by their shared artistic sensibility but also by a deep and abiding friendship, one that colored their lives and greatly influenced their writing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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Summary: Features the complete recorded works, many released for the first time, of "beat generation" writer and poet Jack Kerouac.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Rhino Records] 1990
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Contents: Kerouac (performed by Morphine) -- Bowery blues (Lydia Lunch) -- My gang (Michael Stipe) -- Dream: "Us kids swim off a gray pier..." (Steven Tyler) -- Letter to William S. Burroughs & Ode to Jack (Hunter S. Thompson) -- Skid Row wine (Maggie Estep & The Spitters) -- America's new trinity of love: Dean, Brando, Presley (Richard Lewis) -- Dream: "On a sunny afternoon ..." (Lawrence Ferlinghetti &...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rykodisc 1997
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Summary: The classic novel that epitomizes the "Beat Generation." Portrays a spontaneous and wandering way of life founded on jazz and drugs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio Books 1995
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Summary: New acquaintances Wesley Martin, a merchant marine, and intellectual Bill Everhart discuss Tom Wolfe, jazz music, communism and loneliness on their spontaneous hitchhiking trip from New York to Boston to board the S.S. Westminster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2012