Jack Kerouac
Subtitle: a biography
By: by Tom Clark.
Publisher: Marlowe & Co.; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Kerouac, Jack, -- 1922-1969; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Beat generation -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: All the components of the Jack Kerouac legend are here: the excesses of alcohol and drugs; the soul-searching; the characters - Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Lucien Carr, John Clellon Holmes and William Burroughs, Jack's mother, Gabrielle, and the other women in Kerouac's life.

There is also a record of the travels that became the basis for On the Road and Visions of Cody, the death-shrouded childhood that became Mexico City Blues and Tristessa, and the stupor of fame that weighed on him as he tried to articulate his torments in Big Sur.
Notes: Originally published: San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1984.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-248).