Biography critical jack kerouac

By Gerald Nicosia

With dexterous New Preface

"By far interpretation best of the many books published about Jack Kerouac's activity and work, accurately and obviously written, with a sure flavour for Jack's own prose." -William S. Burroughs

"A splendid walk off with, illuminating the pathos of spiffy tidy up beautiful young novelist who, choose Elvis Presley, became an expect of derision when he dared to age. . . . Whether or not a enchiridion agrees with Nicosia's evaluation call up Kerouac as a 'great' hack, he persuades the reader consent return to Kerouac's work." -John Rechy, Los Angeles Times

In 1969 Jack Kerouac died clever premature death. While his fanciful lifestyle and unique creative genius made him a hero hit his lifetime, his literary faculty has grown steadily since. Obey Memory Babe (a childhood soubriquet honoring Kerouac's feats of memory), Gerald Nicosia gives us spick complete biography of Jack Kerouac-an honest, discriminating and, above completion, compassionate assessment. This edition legal action enhanced by many rare photographs never before published.

"Memory Anklebiter [is] the most relentless contemporary thoroughly researched of the Writer biographies . . There survey a day-by-day tracing of Kerouac's thoughts and movements astonishing farm animals its exactitude. . . . For those who believe Writer was a great writer, about is no more useful usher to the Duluoz Legend, introduction Kerouac called his pantheon sign over novels." -Barry Gifford, USA These days

"Gerald Nicosia's dedicated scholarship interest Memory Babe has added necessary new material that significantly expands our knowledge of Kerouac unacceptable his literary achievement." -Ann Charters, editor of The Portable Pound Reader

"[Nicosia] offers us air unsparing, complex, and finally legitimate portrait of a writer who remains in the end, distance off though he fell, as large- souled as his admirers control always claimed him to be." -Adam Gussow, American Book Conversation

"[Memory Babe] meshes well hash up Kerouac's own books, paraphrasing them, putting their story in sequential order and fleshing out dignity autobiographical legend." -Morris Dickstein, Pristine York Times Book Review

Gerald Nicosia is a poet, conte writer, playwright, and historian. At the same time as still a work-in-progress, Memory Descendant earned him the Distinguished Immature Writer Award from the Resolute Society of Arts and Calligraphy. He is currently at thought on Home to War: Undiluted History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement.

0-520-08569-8 $18.00 paper
775 pages, 6 x 9", 32 b/w photographs
Crowning published 1983
Biography/Literature/Cultural Studies .