Tristessa (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Tristessa (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Tristessa - Jack Kerouac

Jako většina děl Jacka Kerouaca je i útlá próza Tristessa založena na autorových zážitcích a spoluutváří onu 'velkou knihu autorova života', vedle tak slavných románů jako Na cestě, Dharmoví tuláci, Andělé zoufalství či Vize Codyho. Předobrazem hlavní hrdinky knihy,

Pic (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Podzemníci a Tristessa - Jack Kerouac

Dva temné příběhy osudové lásky na pokraji a dně společnosti. Oba vycházejí z autorových mnohdy bolestných zážitků. V Podzemnících provádí autor čtenáře jazzovými kluby i lacinými podniky San Francisca, kde prožívá krátké milostné dobrodružství s černou dívkou

Dharma Bums (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Lonesome Traveler (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Visions of Gerard (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Book of Haikus (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Renowned for his Beat Generation novel 'On the Road', Jack Kerouac was also a master of the haiku, the three-line, seventeen-syllable Japanese poetic form. Written by a Kerouac scholar, this work supplements a core haiku manuscript from Kerouac's archives with a generous selection of the rest of

Big Sur (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to get away to solitude again or die, so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast

The Portable Jack Kerouac (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback)

The definitive Kerouac collection-now in Penguin Classics To coincide with the 50th anniversary celebration of On the Road, Penguin Classics republishes this landmark collection. The Portable Jack Kerouac made clear the ambition and accomplishment of Kerouac's 'Legend of Duluoz'-the story of his

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, then still unknown writers, were both arrested following a murder: one of their friends had stabbed another and then come to them for advice - neither had told the

Mexico City Blues (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

'I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday' Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac's most significant and emblematic poem. Consisting of 242 loosely linked 'choruses', it takes in life, death, spirituality, jazz

Desolation Angels (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

The classic autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac featuring 'one of the most true, comic, and grizzly journeys in American literature' (Time)-now in a new edition Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac's life-the period that led up to the

On the Road (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

On the Road by Jack Kerouac is the exhilarating novel that defined the Beat Generation and is a 2012 major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst and Sam Riley, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road,

On the Road (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

'I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's' Bob Dylan Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero, the mystical traveller Dean Moriarty, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or

Lonesome Traveler (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

The author roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. In this book, he reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of

The Haunted Life - Jack Kerouac

The Haunted Life is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home town. But with the war escalating in Europe and his two closest friends both plotting their escapes, he

Můj bratr oceán - Jack Kerouac

Dosud nevydaný text z pozůstalosti Jacka Kerouaca, jeho první rozsáhlejší dílo. Kerouac ho napsal na základě svých zkušeností ze služby u obchodního námořnictva. Vydavatelé jeho text doplnili řadou dalších materiálů - tematicky a časově souvisejícími prozaickými fragmenty

Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America (McNally Dennis)(Paperback)

'A blockbuster of a biography . . . absolutely magnificent.'--San Francisco Chronicle 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

The Haunted Life: And Other Writings (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback)

In 1944 under circumstances that remain rather mysterious an aspiring writer named Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript title 'The Haunted Life,' a coming-of-age story set in his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts.Kerouac set his fictional treatment of Peter Martin against the backdrop of

On the Road: The Original Scroll (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, 'a sideburned hero of the snowy West.' As 'Sal Paradise' and 'Dean Moriarty,' the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his

Maggie Cassidy (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

A tale of teenage romance in New England. It features the story of Jack and Maggie who are in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to marriage with hope and trepidation. It captures the intensity and the ordinariness of adolescent life, with its torments and complications. It also

Doctor Sax (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Presents an autobiographical account of the author's growing up in Lowell, Massachusetts, told through his fictional alter ego Jack Duluoz, he mingles real people and events with fantastical figures to capture the accents, scents, sights and texture of his

Doktor Sax - Jack Kerouac

Dílo Jacka Kerouaca lze rozdělit na romány 'ze silnice' a na romány popisující jeho dětství a dospívání v rodném Lowellu - a právě z druhé zmíněné skupiny pochází román Doktor Sax, jedno z autorových vrcholných, ale zároveň nejméně typických děl. Melancholické