Why Kerouac matters : the lessons of On the road : (they're not what you think) /
Leland, John,1959-
New York ; London : Viking,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-205).
[book 1.] Girls, visions, everything : the education of Sal Paradise -- Growing up Kerouac -- The parable of the wet hitchhiker -- What would Jack do? -- [book 2.] Paradise among the Dingledodies : the parables of men -- The mad ones -- Sal's guide to work and money -- The book of lost fathers -- [book 3.] The true story of the world is a French movie : the parables of love and sex -- How not to pick up girls -- The family guy -- [book 4.] We don't go skating like the Scott Fitzgeralds : the parables of jazz -- The Tao of Orooni-- We know time -- [book 5.] Visions of Sal : the book of revelations -- The holy goofs -- Ghosts -- Visions -- The aftermath : success and its discontents -- Sad Paradise and the lessons unlearned.
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
Autobiographical fiction, American
Beat generation in literature.