Title: Jack Kerouac
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.
Subjects: Beat generation, American Authors, United States, Bohemianism, Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969, Biography, Fiction, Teenagers, Zombies, Disasters, Beats (Persons), Biografie, Authors, american
People: Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
Time periods: 20th century