Items related to Beat Generation: Jack Kerouac
Synopsis
Written in 1957, but only recently rediscovered in manuscript form in a New Jersey warehouse, Beat Generation bears the hallmarks of vintage Kerouac: flowing, stream-of-consciousness language, orchestrated with a jazz-like sense of adventure and rhythm. Entertaining and exuberant, and conjuring up a thrilling, smoke-filled, atmospheric New York of bygone days, the play probes the American working-class psyche and tackles profound questions of religion, mortality and rebirth.
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Review
'I remember being awed by him and amazed by him' -- Alan Ginsberg
'What are writers trying to do? They are trying to create a universe in which they have lived or would like to live. To write they must go there and submit to conditions they may not have bargained for. Sometimes, as in the case of Kerouac, the effect produced by a writer is immediate, as if a generation were waiting to be written.' --William S. Burroughs
'Kerouac came roaring down each highway like a man possessed...Moving on not from a sense of disenchantment, but with a voracious and insatiable hunger for experience.' --Lester Bangs
'I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's' --Bob Dylan
From the Publisher
A lost work and original play by Jack Kerouac available to the British public for the first time. Enriched with photographs and additional material.
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- PublisherAlma Books Ltd
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1846882613
- ISBN 13 9781846882616
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages120
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