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)

Times: 20th century