In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to 'get away to solitude again or die', so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast....
Desolation Angels is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of On the Road , told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his thinly-disguised Beat cohorts Allen Ginsberg, Gregory...
Sie sind immer unterwegs, auf Trips quer durch den amerikanischen Kontinent. Sie berauschen sich an der Natur, an Drogen, am Jazz, am Sex. Atemlos erzählt Jack Kerouac in seinem autobiographischen Roman von der Suche nach dem Glück, nach Freihei...
In alternating chapters that reveal a nascent period in their development as two of the twentieth century's most influential writers, Beat Generation icons William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac's And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is an...
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published word for word as Kerouac originally composed it. On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the...
In this 1962 novel, Kerouac's alter ego Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Francisco and an isolated cabin on the California coast where he attempts to renew his spirit and clear his...
Dies ist das literarische Manifest einer Jugend, die inmitten der "schlechtesten der Welten" ein leidenschaftliches Bekenntnis zum "glückseligen Leben" ablegte. Tempo, Jazz, Marihuana, Sex und Freiheit waren die Zauberwörter...
The raucous, exuberant, often wildly funny account of a journey through America and Mexico, Jack Kerouacâs On the Road  instantly defined a generation on its publication in 1957: it was, in the words of aÂ&...
This definitive Kerouac collectionâthe only anthology of his work ever publishedâis an essential introduction to one of the countryâs most influential writers.
âSketching . . Everything activates in front of you in myriad profusion, you just have to purify your mind and let it pour the words and write with 100% personal honesty.â
Interviews with the well-known Beat generation author of On the Road who revitalized American literature before his premature death due to substance abuse