false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171000571m/81590.jpg 81590 4 The long-awaited reissue of the definitive biography of Jack Kerouac, unwitting avatar of the Beat Generation and author of <I>On the Road</I>. <P>Jack Kerouac--"King of the Beats," unwitting catalyst for the '60s counterculture, groundbreaking 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. <I>Desolate Angel</I> 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. <I>Desolate Angel</I> is a harrowing, compassionate portrait of a man and artist set against an extraordinary social backdrop. 78787 1979 Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America total:58|5:11|4:27|3:13|2:7|1:0| 58 216 85 7 0 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 16:08:51 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 16:14:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Dec 11 09:26:52 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 09:27:26 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Fri Sep 21 09:40:36 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 23 11:08:39 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu Apr 26 11:20:42 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 26 11:21:40 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Fri Mar 14 16:37:19 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 14 16:37:45 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Jan 29 19:45:57 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 19:47:13 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Wed Jul 22 19:40:32 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 19:41:09 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 19 09:40:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 09:40:00 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 17 02:19:54 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 02:19:54 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 09 13:58:37 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 13:58:37 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 04 16:20:16 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 16:20:18 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Nov 03 17:33:16 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 18:13:21 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Sun Sep 06 06:38:50 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 06:39:07 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Mon Aug 10 12:42:33 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 12:42:33 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Aug 05 13:18:18 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 13:18:18 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 10:42:47 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 10:42:47 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 15 00:40:16 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 00:40:16 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Apr 14 07:44:12 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 07:44:12 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Apr 07 05:16:54 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 05:16:54 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Mar 30 07:40:25 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 07:40:27 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=81590