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Jack Kerouac: Visions of Cody, Visions of Gerard, Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
$60.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Library of America's edition of the writings of Jack Kerouac opens with Visions of Cody, the ground-breaking work originally written in the early 1950s and published posthumously in 1972, in which Kerouac first treats the material later immortalised in On the Road. Visions of Gerard (1963) is a deep ...Show more
Scattered Poems by Jack Kerouac
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Spontaneous poetry by the author of On the Road, gathered from underground and ephemeral publications; including "San Francisco Blues," the variant texts of "Pull My Daisy," and American haiku.HERE DOWN ON DARK EARTHbefore we all go to HeavenVISIONS OF AMERICAAll that hitchhikinAll that railroadinAll th ...Show more
Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Fiction | 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
Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Unique among Jack Kerouac's novels, Visions of Gerardfocuses on the scenes and sensations of childhood - -the wisdom, anguish, intensity, innocence, evil, insight, suffering, delight, and shock -- as they were revealed in the short tragic-happy life of his saintly brother, Gerard. Set in Kerouac's home ...Show more
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