'Jack Kerouac died in 1969 at the age of forty-seven . . . Most of
his friends survived him. Our idea was to seek them out and talk
with them about Jack's life and their own lives. The final result,
we hoped, would be a big, transcontinental conversation, complete
with interruptions, contradictions, old grudges and bright
memories, all of them providing a reading of the man himself
through the people he chose to populate his work.' In this
kaleidoscopic portrait of Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Carolyn
Cassady, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Gary
Snyder, Gore Vidal and many others talk, argue and reminisce about
their times with him. But alongside these luminaries of the Beat
generation are the voices of those who knew a different side of
Kerouac: the working men, the childhood friends, the bar
companions, the lovers. Fascinating, honest and richer than any
orthodox biography could be, Jack's Book documents Kerouac's genius
in its full, tragic, contradictory glory.
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