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1) On the road
Author
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Behind us lay the whole of America and everything Dean and I had previously known about life, and life on the road. We had finally found the magic land at the end of the road and we never dreamed the extent of the magic. Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz...
4) Big Sur
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 212 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Coming down from his carefree youth and unwanted fame, Jack Kerouac undertakes a mature confrontation of some of his most troubling emotional issues: a burgeoning problem with alcoholism, addiction, fear, and insecurity. He dutifully records his ever-changing states of consciousness, which culminate in a powerful religious experience. Big Sur was written some time after Jack Kerouac's best-known works, following a visit to northern California and...
5) Dig
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
On morning, sixty-eight-year-old newspaper librarian Maddy Sprowls is shocked to read her old college friend Gordon Sweet is dead and he was shot in the head in the abandoned landfill where he was conducting his latest archeological dig. She soon realizes there may be a connection between Gordon's death and the death of state wrestling champ Davif Delarosa fifty years earlier. As Maddy continues to investigate, she revisits her beatnik days in order...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1944, a shocking murder rocked the fledgling Beats. William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, both still unknown, we inspired by the crime to collaborate on a novel, a hard-boiled tale of bohemian New York during World War II, full of drugs and art, obsession and brutality, with scenes and characters drawn from their own lives. Finally published after more than sixty years, this is a captivating read, and incomparable literary artifact,...
Author
Pub. Date
1978
Physical Desc
viii unnumbered pages, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The classic and fascinating story of Jack Kerouac, "King of the Beats" and American literary legend, recorded through the voices of his friends and lovers. Authors Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee retraced Kerouac's life at home and on the road and talked with the prophets, musicians, poets, socialites, and working people who knew him. Some are famous (Allen Ginsberg, Gore Vidal, William Burroughs); some are not (Jack's boyhood buddies, his lovers,...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A posthumous collection of more than 100 Ginsberg poems is largely comprised of spontaneously penned or forgotten works included in letters or sent to obscure publications and is arranged in chronological order and complemented by extensive author notes. --Publisher's description.
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
xx, 339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Book of Dreams is an experimental novel published by Jack Kerouac in 1960, culled from the dream journal he kept from 1952 to 1960. In it Kerouac tries to continue plot-lines with characters from his books as he sees them in his dreams. This book is stylistically wild, spontaneous, and flowing, like much of Kerouac's writing, and helps to give insight into the Beat Generation author's mind.
10) On the road
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Traveling cross-country, young writer Sal Paradise has his life shaken by the arrival of free-spirited Dean Moriarty and his girl, Marylou. As they travel across the country, they encounter a mix of people who each impact their journey indelibly.
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxxi, 532 pages ; 24 cm. + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
With the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William Burroughs abruptly brought international letters into the postmodern age. Beginning with his very early writing (including a chapter from his and Jack Kerouac's never-before-seen collaborative novel), Word Virus follows the arc of Burroughs's remarkable career, from his darkly hilarious "routines" to the experimental cut-up novels to Cities of the Red Night and The Cat Inside. Beautifully edited...