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Desolate Angel - Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation, And America (Paperback, Export Ed)
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Desolate Angel - Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation, And America (Paperback, Export Ed)
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Jack Kerouac-"King of the Beats," unwitting catalyst for the'60s
counterculture, ground-breaking author-was a complex and compelling
man: a star athlete with a literary bent a spontaneous writer
vilified by the New Critics but adored by a large, youthful
readership a devout Catholic but aspiring Buddhist a lover of
freedom plagued by crippling alcoholism. Desolate Angel follows
Kerouac from his childhood in the mill town of Lowell,
Massachusetts, to his early years at Columbia where he met Allen
Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady, beginning a
four-way friendship that became a lifelong obsession. Kerouac's
frenetic cross-country journeys, experiments with drugs and
sexuality, travels to Mexico and Tangier, and years of failure,
frustration, and depression are recounted with detail and
sensitivity. Desolate Angel is a harrowing, compassionate portrait
of a man and artist set against an extraordinary social backdrop.
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