Availability:In StockContributor:Jack Kerouac, Charles Shuttleworth (Editor)Publish date:2022-11-08Pages:312
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rare Bird BooksISBN-13:9781644282861ISBN-10:1644282860UPC:9781644282861Book Category:Literary Collections, Biography & Autobiography, PoetryBook Subcategory:Diaries & Journals, Literary Figures, AmericanSize:9.20 x 6.20 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SC34YV6W64
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"Something will happen to me on Desolation Peak...I can feel it."
In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, CA, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking only the Diamond Sutra for reading material, he intended to spend his time in deep contemplation and to achieve enlightenment. He wrote in his journal that he...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rare Bird BooksISBN-13:9781644282861ISBN-10:1644282860UPC:9781644282861Book Category:Literary Collections, Biography & Autobiography, PoetryBook Subcategory:Diaries & Journals, Literary Figures, AmericanSize:9.20 x 6.20 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SC34YV6W64
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...
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