Jack's book
Subtitle: an oral biography of Jack Kerouac
By: Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee ; [revised and updated by Barry Gifford]
Contributors: Lee, Lawrence, 1941-1990
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780143121886
Subjects: Beat generation; American Authors; Biography
Description: Here is Jack Kerouac's story, as recorded through the voices of his friends and lovers. Authors Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee retraced Kerouac's life at home and on the road and talked with the prophets, musicians, poets, socialites, and working people who knew him. Some are famous (Allen Ginsberg, Gore Vidal, William Burroughs) ; some are not (Jack's boyhood buddies, his lovers, his barroom companions). All have contributed to a remarkably vibrant, riveting portrait of a life and the Beat Generation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-336) and index.