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In these uncollected writings Jack Kerouac portrays himself in his life. He hitches a ride to San Francisco with a blonde, goes on the road with photographer Robert Frank, rides bus through the Northwest and Montana, records the blues of an old Negro hobo, talks about the Beats and how it all began, gives his "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" and defends his novel The Subterraneans, compares Shakespeare and James Joyce, describes the cafeterias and subways of Manhattan, goes to a ballgame and a prize fight, and reflects on Christmas in New England, on Murnau's Nosferatu, on jazz & bop, and tells us what he's thinking about.Table of Contents Walking to Eden Optical Terror The Impossible Genus On Returning from Chiapas Alphabets and Emperors Optical Pleasure Haunting by Water Mapping Paris The Monstrous and the Marvelous The Death Cunt of Deep Dell Sortilege Books of Nature A Dream Manifesto in Voices Acknowledgments Bibliography

Book details

• Full title: Good Blonde
• Author: KEROUAC JACK
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• EAN: 9780912516226
• ISBN: 9780912516226
• ID: 06573831
• Publisher: Grey Fox Press
• Weight: 311 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 139 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. January 2001

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