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Author Leland, John, 1959-

Title Why Kerouac matters : the lessons of On the road (they're not what you think) / John Leland.

Publication Info. New York : Viking, 2007.

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 Moore Stacks  PS3521.E735 O5347 2007    Available  ---
Description 205 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-205).
Contents [book 1.] Girls, visions, everything : the education of Sal Paradise -- Growing up Kerouac -- The parable of the wet hitchhiker -- What would Jack do? -- [book 2.] Paradise among the Dingledodies : the parables of men -- The mad ones -- Sal's guide to work and money -- The book of lost fathers -- [book 3.] The true story of the world is a French movie : the parables of love and sex -- How not to pick up girls -- The family guy -- [book 4.] We don't go skating like the Scott Fitzgeralds : the parables of jazz -- The Tao of Orooni-- We know time -- [book 5.] Visions of Sal : the book of revelations -- The holy goofs -- Ghosts -- Visions -- The aftermath : success and its discontents -- Sad Paradise and the lessons unlearned.
Subject Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. On the road.
Autobiographical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Autobiographical fiction, American.
Beats (Persons) in literature.
Beats (Persons) in literature.
ISBN 9780670063253
0670063258