Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America - Couverture souple

McNally, Dennis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0385300956 ISBN 13 : 9780385300957

Editeur : Delacorte Pr, 1990

Synopsis

Book by McNally Dennis

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Jack Kerouac-"King of the Beats," unwitting catalyst for the '60s counterculture, groundbreaking author-was a complex and compelling man: a star athlete with a literary bent; a spontaneous writer vilified by the New Critics but adored by a large, youthful readership; a devout Catholic but aspiring Buddhist; a lover of freedom plagued by crippling alcoholism. Desolate Angel follows Kerouac from his childhood in the mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, to his early years at Columbia where he met Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady, beginning a four-way friendship that became a lifelong obsession. Kerouac's frenetic cross-country journeys, experiments with drugs and sexuality, travels to Mexico and Tangier, and years of failure, frustration, and depression are recounted with detail and sensitivity. Desolate Angel is a harrowing, compassionate portrait of a man and artist set against an extraordinary social backdrop.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dennis McNally holds a doctoral degree in history from the University of Massachusetts and his written about Kerouac and the Beats for many scholarly journals. He is perhaps best known as the longtime publicist for the Grateful Dead and the author of the inside history of the band, A Long, Strange Trip. He lives in San Francisco.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Delacorte Pr
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0385300956
• ISBN 13: 9780385300957
• Reliure: Broché
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• Personne responsable: non disponible