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: Penguin Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Beat generation -- 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:; title: Pine forests and pure thought 1963-1940.; title: Repulsion may race here in exhibition feature!! --; title: Jack Lewis's Baseball Chatter --; title: [One long strange dream] --; title: Count Baasie's band best in land; group famous for "solid" swing --; title: Go back --; title: Nothing -- A; title: 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: Where the road begins --; title: New York nite club. -- Part two: An; title: original kicker 1941. There's something about a cigar --; title: God --; title: If I were wealthy --; title: [One Sunday afternoon in July] --The; title: birth of a socialist --; title: No connection : a novel that I don't intend to finish --; title: On the porch, remembering -- The; title: 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] -- The; title: good jobs --; title: From Radio City to the Crown -- --; title: Little cottage by the sea... --The; title: juke box is saving America --; title: Hartford after work... --; title: Legends and legends...-- A; title: Kerouac that turned out sublime...-- The; title: father of my father --; title: Credo --; title: Hungry young writer's notebook... -- A; title: 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. -- Part three:; title: To portray life accurately 1942-1943.; title: Sadness at six -- The; title: joy of Duluoz --; title: Famine for the heart -- [The; title: very thing I live for] -- The; title: mystery --; title: Thinking of Thomas Wolfe on a winter's night --; title: Beauty as a lasting truth.