Jack Kerouac: Road Novels 1957-1960 (LOA #174) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jack Kerouac: Road Novels 1957-1960 (LOA #174) write by Jack Kerouac. This book was released on 2007-09. Jack Kerouac: Road Novels 1957-1960 (LOA #174) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road" along with four other of his autobiographical "road books" and journal entries related to "On the Road."
The Unknown Kerouac (LOA #283)
The Unknown Kerouac (LOA #283) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Unknown Kerouac (LOA #283) write by Jack Kerouac. This book was released on 2016-10-11. The Unknown Kerouac (LOA #283) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This remarkable gathering of previously unpublished writings shines new light on the On the Road author’s life, from his French Canadian childhood to his meteoric rise to literary fame Edited and published with unprecedented access to the Kerouac archives, The Unknown Kerouac presents two lost novels, The Night Is My Woman and Old Bull in the Bowery, which Kerouac wrote in French during the especially fruitful years of 1951 and 1952. Discovered among his papers in the mid-nineties, they have been translated into English for the first time by Jean-Christophe Cloutier, who incorporates Kerouac’s own partial translations. Also included are two journals from the heart of this same crucial period. In Private Philologies, Riddles, and a Ten-Day Writing Log, Kerouac recounts a brief stay in Denver—where he works on an early version of On the Road, reads dime novels, and even rides in a rodeo—and shows him contemplating writers like Chaucer and Joyce and playing with riddles and etymologies. Journal 1951, begun during a stay in a Bronx VA hospital, charts, in ecstatic, moving, and self-revealing pages, the wave of insights and breakthroughs that led Kerouac to the most singular transformation of American prose style since Hemingway. This landmark volume is rounded out with the memoir Memory Babe, a poignant evocation of childhood play and reverie in a robust immigrant community, in which Kerouac uncannily retrieves and distills the subtlest sense impressions. And finally, in an interview with his longtime friend and fellow Beat John Clellon Holmes and in the late fragment Beat Spotlight Kerouac reflects on his meteoric career and unlooked for celebrity. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
The Subterraneans
The Subterraneans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Subterraneans write by Jack Kerouac. This book was released on 2011-07-21. The Subterraneans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'The tender and achingly poetic account of a love affair' Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone Leo Percepied, aspiring writer and self-styled freewheeling bum, gravitates to the subterraneans, impoverished intellectuals who haunt the bars of San Francisco. One of them is Mardou Fox, beautiful and a little crazy, whose dark eyes, full of suffering and sweetness, find recognition in Leo. But, afraid of his growing involvement, Leo sets out to destroy their love. Written in three days, The Subterraneans is, like all Kerouac's work, closely related to his own life while encapsulating his great vision of America.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater write by Kurt Vonnegut. This book was released on 2007-12-18. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “[Vonnegut] at his wildest best.”—The New York Times Book Review Eliot Rosewater—drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation—is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature . . . with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is Kurt Vonnegut’s funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh we are all heir to. “A brilliantly funny satire on almost everything.”—Conrad Aiken “[Vonnegut was] our finest black humorist. . . . We laugh in self-defense.”—The Atlantic Monthly
The Essential Ginsberg
The Essential Ginsberg - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Essential Ginsberg write by Allen Ginsberg. This book was released on 2015-05-26. The Essential Ginsberg available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Visionary poet Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential cultural and literary figures of the 20th century, his face and political causes familiar to millions who had never even read his poetry. And yet he is a figure that remains little understood, especially how a troubled young man became one of the intellectual and artistic giants of the postwar era. He never published an autobiography or memoirs, believing that his body of work should suffice. The Essential Ginsberg attempts a more intimate and rounded portrait of this iconic poet by bringing together for the first time his most memorable poetry but also journals, music, photographs and letters, much of it never before published.
