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xii+339 pages with photographs, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine over beige boards in original pictorial Jacket. First edition. Jack's Book gives us an intimate look into the life and times of the "King of the Beats." Through the words of the close friends, lovers, artists, and drinking buddies who survived him, writers Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee recount Jack Kerouac's story, from his childhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, to his tragic end in Florida at the age of forty-seven. Including anecdotes from an eclectic list of well-known figures such as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gore Vidal, as well as Kerouac's ordinary acquaintances, this groundbreaking oral biography—the first of its kind—presents us with a remarkably insightful portrait of an American legend and the spirit of a generation. Condition: Page ends dusty. Jacket spine head closed tea+, verso taped, spine sunned else better…
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Jack's Book: an Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac Hardcover - 1978
by Gifford, Barry
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- Title Jack's Book: an Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
- Author Gifford, Barry
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 339
- Language ENG
- Publisher St. Martin's Press, New York
- Date 1978
- ISBN 9780312439422
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