{"title":"Jack Kerouac","description":"Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the \"Beat generation\" and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and Big Sur. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of \"one vast book,\" The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.","products":[{"product_id":"big-sur-paperback","title":"Big Sur - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive years after \u003cem\u003eOn the Road, \u003c\/em\u003e the book that made him an overnight celebrity, Kerouac examines with wrenching clarity his unwished for fame, escalating alcoholism, and troubling alienation from nature. In a thinly veiled autobiographical account of his time in Big Sur at the cabin of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and with friends in San Francisco--among them fellow iconoclasts Neal Cassady, Gary Snyder, and Alan Watts--he chronicles a ruinous alcoholic bender with searing psychological candor. Kerouac displays full mastery of pace, structure, and idiom in \u003cem\u003eBig Sur\u003c\/em\u003e--a tale that ends with a crescendo as finely wrought and poignant as any in American literature. Includes a character key and a detailed biographical timeline.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101636792543,"sku":"9781734029260","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/NkkxS0hjWS9zRkdiby8zc2FYSnFydz09.webp?v=1781071870"},{"product_id":"tristessa-paperback","title":"Tristessa - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBased on Jack Kerouac's own real-life love affair in Mexico City, this is the story of a man's ill-fated relationship with a woman he portrays with tenderness and dignity, even as her life spirals out of control\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntatic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion. Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later half XX century, a synthesis of Proust, C駘ine, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Genet, Thelonius Monk, Basho, Charlie Parker, and Kerouac's own athletic sacred insight. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This entire short novel\u003ci\u003e Tristessa\u003c\/i\u003e's a narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuaha dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady, first in their crowded bedroom, then out to drunken streets, taco stands, \u0026amp; pads at dawn in Mexico City slums.\" --Allen Ginsberg","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101637775583,"sku":"9780140168112","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ui4Hx8cSyt9780140168112.webp?v=1781071872"},{"product_id":"maggie-cassidy-paperback","title":"Maggie Cassidy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the bard of the Beat Generation comes a profoundly moving, autobiographical novel of childhood and first love.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A surprisingly simple and appealing tale of a young student's fumbling search for love among the high school set . . . at his best, [Kerouac] can give you poetic visions of the commonplace.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"She'd cradle my broken head in her all-healing lap that beat like a heart; my eyes hot would feel the soothe fingertips of cool, the joy, the stroke and barely-touch, the feminine sweet loss bemused inward-biting far-thinking deep earth river-mad April caress . . .\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis touching novel of adolescent love and loss in a 1930s New England mill town is one of Kerouac's most poignant works. It tells the story of teenager Jack Duluoz, exploring his secret passions, his sporting prowess, and his first romance, with a beautiful Irish girl named Maggie Cassidy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally written in 1953, \u003ci\u003eMaggie Cassidy\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable, bittersweet evocation of the awkwardness and joy of growing up in America.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101639643359,"sku":"9780140179064","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/WTBnnankJ59780140179064.webp?v=1781071876"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/jack-kerouac.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}