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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Ohio

The Lost Novel

In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled itThe Sea Is My Brother. Now, nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon.

Written seven years beforeThe Town and The City officially launched his writing career,The Sea Is My Brother marks a pivotal point in which Kerouac began laying the foundations for his pioneering method and signature style. A clear precursor to such landmark works asOn the Road,The Dharma Bums, andVisions of Cody, it is an important formative work that bears all the hallmarks of classic Kerouac: the search for spiritual meaning in a materialistic world, spontaneous travel as the true road to freedom, late nights in bars and apartments engaged in intense conversation, the desperate urge to escape from society, and the strange, terrible beauty of loneliness.

 

The Sea Is My Brother

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A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958

On a blind date in Greenwich Village set up by Allen Ginsberg, Joyce Johnson (then Joyce Glassman) met Jack Kerouac in January 1957, nine months before he became famous overnight with the publication of On the Road. She was an adventurous, independent-minded twenty-one-year-old; Kerouac was already running on empty at thirty-five. This unique book, containing the many letters the two of them wrote to each other, reveals a surprisingly tender side of Kerouac. It also shares the vivid and unusual perspective of what it meant to be young, Beat, and a woman in the Cold War fifties. Reflecting on those tumultuous years, Johnson seamlessly interweaves letters and commentary, bringing to life her love affair with one of American letters' most fascinating and enigmatic figures.

Door Wide Open

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

"It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go."-- Kerouac on The Town and the City. Kerouac's debut novel is a great coming of age story which can be read as the essential prelude to his later classics.

Kerouac draws on his New England mill-town boyhood to create the world of George and Marguerite Martin and their eight children, each endowed with an energy and a vision of life. The Town and the City is vividly drawn with poetic prose, lacking the stream-of-consciousness style of his later works. Fans of Kerouac as well as Steinbeck, will be enthralled by this dramatic family saga capped by a final scene that poignantly sets up On the Road.

The Town and the City

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Washington

Fictionalized narrative of travels by Kerouac and his friend Neal Cassady under pseudonyms of Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty.

On the Road

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

The legendary novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation, now in a striking new Pengiun Classics Deluxe Edition Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naiveté and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

the lonely victory of Jack Kerouac

The voice is all

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Illinois

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

California

Book of Dreams is Jack Kerouac's record of his dream life, a parallel autobiography of the soul, the sleeper's On the Road:

"I got my weary bones out of bed & through eyes swollen with sleep swiftly scribbled in pencil in my little dream notebook till I had exhausted every rememberable item ... "

Awake of asleep, Jack's mind spun the web of relationships that were the substance of almost everything he wrote:

"In the book of dreams I just continue the same story but in the dreams I had of the real-life characters I always write about."

Book of Dreams

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The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac

Drawing on interviews and his own relationship with Kerouac Amburn has revealed an inner Kerouac who has not appeared in previous biographies, a man torn by his conflicting beliefs and desires. Kerouac always struggled with poverty, his drinking and doubts about his lifestyle, remaining convinced until his death that his homosexuality was immoral.

Subterranean Kerouac

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New Jersey

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A Life of the Buddha

Published for the first time in book form, an account of the life of the Buddha by the author of On the Road traces Prince Siddhartha Gautama's life-long search for enlightenment and his encounters with the natures of life, wisdom, and suffering. 30,000 first printing.

Wake Up

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Oklahoma

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New York

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A reproduction of Kerouac's original 1951 scroll draft of "On the Road" offers insight into the writer's thematic vision and narrative voice as influenced by the American literary, musical, and visual arts of the post-World War II period.

On the Road: the Original Scroll

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Utah

Lonesome Traveler

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Wisconsin

This study of the cult literary figure, Jack Kerouac gives an insight into the writer's frustrations and the critical hostility his work received.

Angelheaded Hipster: the Life of Jack Kerouac

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Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these eight extended poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in the music of language, employing the same instrumental blues form that he used to fullest effect in Mexico City Blues, his largely unheralded classic of postmodern literature. Edited by Kerouac himself, Book of Blues is an exuberant foray into language and consciousness, rich with imagery, propelled by rythm, and based in a reverent attentiveness to the moment.

"In my system, the form of blues choruses is limited by the small page of the breastpocket notebook in which they are written, like the form of a set number of bars in a jazz blues chorus, and so sometimes the word-meaning can carry from one chorus into another, or not, just like the phrase-meaning can carry harmonically from one chorus to the other, or not, in jazz, so that, in these blues as in jazz, the form is determined by time, and by the musicians spontaneous phrasing & harmonizing with the beat of time as it waves & waves on by in measured choruses." --Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac

The Sea Is My Brother

Jack Kerouac; Joyce Johnson

Door Wide Open

Jack Kerouac

The Town and the City

Jack Kerouac; Ann Charters (Introduction by)

On the Road

Jack Kerouac; Ann Charters (Introduction by)

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

On the Road

Joyce Johnson

The voice is all

Jack Kerouac

On the Road

Jack Kerouac; Robert Creeley (Introduction by)

Book of Dreams

Ellis Amburn

Subterranean Kerouac

Jack Kerouac

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

Wake Up

Jack Kerouac

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

On the Road

Jack Kerouac; Howard Cunnell (Introduction by); Penny Vlagopoulos (Introduction by); George Mouratidis (Introduction by); Joshua Kupetz (Introduction by)

On the Road: the Original Scroll

Jack Kerouac

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

Lonesome Traveler

Steve Turner

Angelheaded Hipster: the Life of Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac; Ann Charters (Introduction by)

On the Road

Jack Kerouac; Robert Creeley (Introduction by)

Book of Blues