[0/87932/055/9] 1973. (hardcover) Very good in near fine dust jacket. 419pp. 8vo. Biography. Charters knew Kerouac socially and then later, he helped her to compliete his formal bibliography. She edited a collection of his 'Scattered Poems', and put together the photo and poetry album 'Scenes Along the Road'. She remained in contact with those who survived him, in particular, Allen Ginsberg and she exhaustively researched all things Kerouac. This is the first and definitive biography. Black and white photographs. Jacket in loose plastic sleeve. Book plate and small paste down sticker to front free endpaper. Internally clean and bright.

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Kerouac

Publisher

Straight Arrow Books, San Francisco

ISBN 10

0879320559

ISBN 13

9780879320553

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Hardcover

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Dust Jacket Included

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hardback first edition Kerouac

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"It is about men and ideas that changed everything. That's reason enough to read it."--"The New York Times"
"This biography becomes almost a novel in itself. The darkly intense, handsome young man, the gypsy wanderer, hero and prophet to everyone but himself...Written with a beautiful combination of toughness and love, of daring insight and honesty, it is a worthy monument to a troubled man."--"The Los Angeles Times"
"Behind the 'crazy rebel' of the novels who inspired a whole generation to go hitchhiking across America in search of 'the myth of the rainy night' lay a life of insecurity and wretched loneliness...a duality perceptively illustrated by Ann Charters in her lucid, well-researched biography."--"The Sunday Telegraph"

It is about men and ideas that changed everything. That's reason enough to read it. "The New York Times"

This biography becomes almost a novel in itself. The darkly intense, handsome young man, the gypsy wanderer, hero and prophet to everyone but himself...Written with a beautiful combination of toughness and love, of daring insight and honesty, it is a worthy monument to a troubled man. "The Los Angeles Times"

Behind the 'crazy rebel' of the novels who inspired a whole generation to go hitchhiking across America in search of 'the myth of the rainy night' lay a life of insecurity and wretched loneliness...a duality perceptively illustrated by Ann Charters in her lucid, well-researched biography. "The Sunday Telegraph""

"It is about men and ideas that changed everything. That's reason enough to read it." --The New York Times

"This biography becomes almost a novel in itself. The darkly intense, handsome young man, the gypsy wanderer, hero and prophet to everyone but himself...Written with a beautiful combination of toughness and love, of daring insight and honesty, it is a worthy monument to a troubled man." --The Los Angeles Times

"Behind the 'crazy rebel' of the novels who inspired a whole generation to go hitchhiking across America in search of 'the myth of the rainy night' lay a life of insecurity and wretched loneliness...a duality perceptively illustrated by Ann Charters in her lucid, well-researched biography." --The Sunday Telegraph

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