Jack Kerouac is Dead to Me

Jack Kerouac is Dead to Me
Title Jack Kerouac is Dead to Me PDF eBook
Author Gae Polisner
Publisher Wednesday Books
Pages 224
Release 2020-04-07
Genre Young Adult Fiction
ISBN 1250312256

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"Jack Kerouac is Dead to Me is an absolutely real, raw and emotional read, and it's a book that touched my heart with every page." - Katie McGarry, critically acclaimed author of Only a Breath Apart Fifteen-year-old JL Markham’s life used to be filled with carnival nights and hot summer days spent giggling with her forever best friend Aubrey about their families and boys. Together, they were unstoppable. But they aren’t the friends they once were. With JL’s father gone on long term business, and her mother struggling with her mental illness, JL takes solace in the tropical butterflies she raises, and in her new, older boyfriend, Max Gordon. Max may be rough on the outside, but he has the soul of a poet (something Aubrey will never understand). Only, Max is about to graduate, and he's going to hit the road - with or without JL. JL can't bear being left behind again. But what if devoting herself to Max not only means betraying her parents, but permanently losing the love of her best friend? What becomes of loyalty, when no one is loyal to you? Gae Polisner’s Jack Kerouac is Dead to Me is a story about the fragility of female friendship, of falling in love and wondering if you are ready for more, and of the glimmers of hope we find by taking stock in ourselves.

The Long, Slow Death of Jack Kerouac

The Long, Slow Death of Jack Kerouac
Title The Long, Slow Death of Jack Kerouac PDF eBook
Author Jim Christy
Publisher
Pages 118
Release 1998
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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One of the most widely read and influential American writers of the 20th century, Jack Kerouac is often misunderstood. This study examines the confessions of a 20th-century St. Augustine and traces the progress of a great pilgrim through the decline of modern civilization. Christy focuses on the last ten years of Kerouac's life, from the influential New York Times rave review of On the Road until his death in 1969, a period in Kerouac's life that until now has been dismissed by most biographers as nothing more than a drunken decline. Christy asserts that Kerouac was a madman and mystic whose last days were wilder and more fascinating than any of the adventures he wrote about. As Christy reveals, in the last decade of his life Jack Kerouac was racing to obtain his goal of being “safe in heaven dead.”

Nobody's Wife

Nobody's Wife
Title Nobody's Wife PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 236
Release 2000
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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It was 1950. Strikingly beautiful, 20-year-old Joan Haverty had arrived in New York and was working as a seamstress. During a deteriorating attempt to reconcile with her lover, fate intervened when Joan heard a stranger's voice calling up to her loft from the street below -- It was Jack Kerouac, needing directions to a party Thus began Joan's stormy romance with and brief marriage to the leather-jacketed archangel of the Beat Generation. She bore his tirades, his passion, his troubled poetic genius, and also bore his child while Kerouac was writing his great signature novel, On the Road.

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
Title Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg PDF eBook
Author Jack Kerouac
Publisher Penguin
Pages 612
Release 2010-07-08
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1101437138

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The first collection of letters between the two leading figures of the Beat movement Writers and cultural icons 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. Editors Bill Morgan and David Stanford shed new light on this intimate and influential friendship in this fascinating exchange of letters between Kerouac and Ginsberg, two thirds of which have never been published before. Commencing in 1944 while Ginsberg was a student at Columbia University and continuing until shortly before Kerouac's death in 1969, the two hundred letters included in this book provide astonishing insight into their lives and their writing. While not always in agreement, Ginsberg and Kerouac inspired each other spiritually and creatively, and their letters became a vital workshop for their art. Vivid, engaging, and enthralling, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters provides an unparalleled portrait of the two men who led the cultural and artistic movement that defined their generation.

Pic

Pic
Title Pic PDF eBook
Author Jack Kerouac
Publisher Grove/Atlantic
Pages 136
Release 1971
Genre Beats (Persons)
ISBN

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Safe in Heaven Dead

Safe in Heaven Dead
Title Safe in Heaven Dead PDF eBook
Author Jack Kerouac
Publisher
Pages 142
Release 1990
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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The Town and the City

The Town and the City
Title The Town and the City PDF eBook
Author Jack Kerouac
Publisher
Pages 499
Release 1973
Genre Beat generation
ISBN 9780704320239

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