Book of Dreams
$56.02
- Paperback
250 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2001
Summary
Book of Dreams is Kerouac’s record of his dreamlife, 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….” In 1961 City Lights published excerpts from the manuscript. This new, expanded edition marks the first publication of the complete manuscript as Kerouac intended it.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780872863804 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0872863808 |
| Author: | Jack Kerouac, Robert Creeley |
| Publisher: | City Lights Books |
| Imprint: | City Lights Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 250 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2001 |
| Weight: | 411g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 139mm x 215mm |
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Critics Review
“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
Jack Kerouac’s (1922-1969) “On the Road” was published in 1957, six years after its completion. It went on to become a bestseller and is considered the quintessential statement of the 1950’s literary movement known as the Beat Generation. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Kerouac did stints at Columbia University, in the Navy and in the Merchant Marine before meeting Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Neal Cassady, who would influence the rest of his life and his writing. Kerouac died in St. Petersburg, Florida at the age of forty-seven.
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