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Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jack Kerouac, Robert Thurman (Introduction by)Audience:Young AdultPublish date:2009-10-01Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143116011ISBN-10:143116010UPC:9780143116011Book Category:Religion, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Buddhism, Religious, SpiritualityBook Topic:General (see also PhilosophySize:6.12 x 4.78 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3704Product ID:SCCEC88S6K

Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha

"[Wake Up] contributes significantly to the fascinating picture of Kerouac's spirituality, revealing the depth of Kerouac's identification with the Buddha."--The Beat Review

"The long, streaming style makes the book majestic and something that you absorb in one sitting, like a symphony."--Robert A. F. Thurman, from the Introduction

In the mid-1950s, lifelong Catholic Jack Kerouac became...

Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143116011ISBN-10:143116010UPC:9780143116011Book Category:Religion, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Buddhism, Religious, SpiritualityBook Topic:General (see also PhilosophySize:6.12 x 4.78 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3704Product ID:SCCEC88S6K
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...
Publisher: Penguin Books

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