Jack KerouacNo devotee of Jack Kerouac should be without this biography, fully illustrated with over 120 magnificent photographs. Kerouac epitomized the "Beat Generation" writers of the 1950s, and his most famous novel, On the Road, provided a textbook for the bohemian lifestyle that has attracted disenchanted youth ever since. Dubbed "the James Dean of the typewriter, " his own life was as colorful as his books. |
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