Jack Kerouac
Subtitle: A Biography
Publisher: Marlowe & Co
Published: March 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781569248508
Subjects: Biography: general; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Novels, other prose & writers; Literary; Biography; Biography / Autobiography; American English; English; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Kerouac, Jack; Beat generation; 20th century; Authors, American
First sentence: JACK KEROUAC, who wrote American English with an almost physical love for the rough, rangy complexity of the language, didn't speak it at all until his fifth year.