Jack Kerouac: King Of The Beats

Barry Miles

Jack Kerouac: King Of The Beats
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Ebury Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 October 2007
Pages
416
ISBN
9780753500590

Jack Kerouac: King Of The Beats

Barry Miles

Barry Miles, friend and official biographer of Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, presents a provocative and intimate portrait of one of the 20th century’s most influential writers

 

Meticulously researched, this is a compelling exploration of the complex man and extraordinary writer whose creative mishmash of joyous incoherence, drug-induced ecstasy, genuine mysticism, and constant craving has persuaded so many to take to the road. In conformist 1950s America, Jack Kerouac’s_On the Road_was greeted with both delirium and dismay. For his generation, he and the universe he created symbolized freedom. He identified the living pulse of America in jazz clubs and fast cars, and found vibrancy in hobos hopping freight cars and traveling the highways. In his hunt for the big experience and his longing for greatness, Kerouac has inspired each successive generation. He is now an icon, an image, an attitude, forever personifying “the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time.” This candid biography reveals a man full of contradictions, rarely at peace with himself.

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