Jack's Book
Subtitle: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Published: September 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781560257394
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography; Biography: general; Literature: History & Criticism; Children's Books/Young Adult Biography; Biography/Autobiography; Literary; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; 20th century; Authors, American; Beat generation; Biography
First sentence: On May 30, 1936, in a letter to Arnold Zweig, Sigmund Freud wrote: "To be a biographer, you must tie yourself up in lies, concealments, hypocrisies, false colorings, and even in hiding a lack of understanding, for biographical truth is not to be had, and if it were to be had, we could not use it. . . . truth is not feasible, mankind doesn't deserve it. . . ."