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Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to 'get away to solitude again or die', so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast. The resulting novel, in which his autobiographical hero Jac ...Show more
Haunted Life by Jack Kerouac
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics
In 1944, twenty-two year old Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript called The Haunted Life. It turned up thirteen years later in a Columbia University dormitory, and then in 2002, at a Sotheby's auction house. Now, 70 years after Kerouac wrote it, his second novel will be published for the first ...Show more
Kerouac - Beat Painting by Jack Kerouac + Sandrina Bandera ed.
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Category: Art & Photography
Kerouac's spontaneous bop poetics in paint: a little-known side of the Beat iconAs well as being the author of novels that defined postwar America and helped launch the counterculture, Jack Kerouac was also a prolific painter and draftsman. But his artistic work--inspired by the artists of the New York ...Show more
Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Kerouac's first and most important poem, Mexico City Blues, incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous composition. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are all lyrically combined in the loose format of the blues to create an original and moving epic. This editi ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassio ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights), Kristen Stew ...Show more
Pic by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It's 1948, and when ten-year-old Pictorial Review Jackson's guardian dies, his older brother Slim appears. Together, the two hitch and bum from North Carolina to New York City, observing the strange lifestyles of people they encounter.
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
$22.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Published just one year after "On The Road", this is the story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.
Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Tristessa is the name with which Kerouac baptized Esperanza Villanueva, a Catholic Mexican young woman, a prostitute and addict to certain drugs, whom he fell in love with during one of his stays in Mexico -a country that he frequently visited - by the middle of the fifties. Wrapped in a spiritual atmos ...Show more
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