Atop an Underwood
Subtitle: early stories and other writings
By: Jack Kerouac ; edited with an introduction and commentary by Paul Marion
Contributors: Marion, Paul, 1954-
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780670888221; 9780521620789
Subjects: Beat generation; Proofs (Printing); Literary collections
Description: An anthology of early stories by the poet of the Beat generation. Topics range from his time in Columbia University, from which he was expelled, to an excerpt from a novel which is based on his service in the merchant marine.
Table of contents: title: Part one : pine forests and pure thought 1936-1940.; title: from Background --; title: Repulsion may race here in exhibition feature!! --; title: from Football novella --; title: Jack Lewis's baseball chatter --; title: [One long strange dream] --; title: Count Basie's band best in land; group famous for "solid" swing --; title: Go back --; title: Nothing --; title: A play I want to write --; title: Concentration --; title: We thronged --; title: [A day in September] --; title: [I know I am August] --; title: Radio script : the spirit of '14 --; title: [I remember the days of my youth] --; title: from Raw rookie nerves --; title: Where the road begins --; title: New York nite club--.; title: Part two : an original kicker 1941.; title: from Background --; title: There's something about a cigar --; title: God --; title: If I were wealthy --; title: [One Sunday afternoon in July] --; title: The birth of a Socialist --; title: No connection : a novel that I don't intend to finish --; title: On the porch, remembering --; title: The sandbank sage --; title: Farewell song, sweet from my trees --; title: [I have to pull up my stakes and roll, man] --; title: Odyssey (continued) --; title: [At 18, I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion] --; title: Observations --; title: Definition of a poet --; title: America in the night --; title: Woman going to Hartford --; title: Old love-light --; title: I tell you it is October! --; title: [Here I am at last with a typewriter] --; title: [Atop an Underwood : introduction] --; title: The good jobs --; title: From Radio City to the Crown --; title: The little cottage by the sea --; title: The juke-box is saving America --; title: Hartford after work --; title: Legends and legends --; title: A Kerouac that turned out sublime --; title: The father of my father --; title: Credo --; title: Hungry young writer's notebook --; title: A young writer's notebook --; title: [I am going to stress a new set of values] --; title: [I am my mother's son] --; title: [Howdy!] --; title: Today --; title: This I do know-- --; title: Search by night.; title: Part three : to portray life accurately 1942-1943.; title: from Background --; title: Sadness at six --; title: The joy of Duluoz --; title: Famine for the heart --; title: [The very thing I live for] --; title: The mystery --; title: Thinking of Thomas Wolfe on a winter's night --; title: from The sea is my brother (merchant mariner) --; title: Beauty as a lasting truth --; title: My generation, my world --; title: The wound of living --; title: Wounded in action --; title: The romanticist --; title: The boy from Philadelphia --; title: The two Americans.