Book of Dreams is Jack Kerouac's record of his dream life, a
parallel autobiography of the soul, the sleeper's On the Road: "I
got my weary bones out of bed & through eyes swollen with sleep
swiftly scribbled in pencil in my little dream notebook till I had
exhausted every rememberable item ..." Awake of asleep, Jack's mind
spun the web of relationships that were the substance of almost
everything he wrote: "In the book of dreams I just continue the
same story but in the dreams I had of the real-life characters I
always write about." "Lost love, madness, castration, cats that
speak, cats in danger of their lives, people giving birth to cats,
grade school classrooms, Mel Torme, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Tolstoy and
Genet all make repeated appearances, lending the collection a
repetitive, nonprogrammatic logic and exposing an unfamiliar sort
of vulnerable beauty in Kerouac's iconic persona." -Publishers
Weekly "There is much to lament in the saga of his life, and quite
a bit is surprising." -Michael Kammen, Los Angeles Book Review Jack
Kerouac (1922-1969) was a principal actor in the Beat Generation, a
companion of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady in that great
adventure. His books include On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Mexico
City Blues, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Cody, Pomes All Sizes
(City Lights), Scattered Poems (City Lights), and Scripture of the
Golden Eternity (City Lights).
General
| Imprint: |
City Lights Books
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
June 2001 |
| First published: |
May 2001 |
| Authors: |
Jack Kerouac
|
| Introduction by: |
Robert Creeley
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 133 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
339 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-87286-380-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-87286-380-8 |
| Barcode: |
9780872863804 |
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