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Pic by Jack Kerouac
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It's 1948, and when ten-year-old Pictorial Review Jackson's guardian dies, his older brother Slim appears. Together, the two hitch and bum from North Carolina to New York City, observing the strange lifestyles of people they encounter.
Piers of the Homeless Night (Mini Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac; Willa Cather
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern
See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart . . . 'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation.
Portable Jack Kerouac by Kerouac, Jack, Charters, Ann
$37.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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 life tol ...Show more
Scattered Poems by Jack Kerouac
$16.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Spontaneous poetry by the author of On the Road, gathered from underground and ephemeral publications; including "San Francisco Blues," the variant texts of "Pull My Daisy," and American haiku.HERE DOWN ON DARK EARTHbefore we all go to HeavenVISIONS OF AMERICAAll that hitchhikinAll that railroadinAll th ...Show more
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Published just one year after "On The Road", this is the story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.
The Scripture of the Golden Eternity by Jack Kerouac
$17.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series
These classic Kerouac meditations, Zen koans and prose poems express the poet's beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe.
The Sea is My Brother by Jack Kerouac
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Published in its entirety for the first time, "The Sea is My Brother" is Jack Kerouac's first novel. Described by Kerouac as being about 'man's simple revolt from society as it is, with the inequalities, frustration, and self-inflicted agonies', the 158-page handwritten manuscript was not published duri ...Show more
The Sea is My Brother: The Lost Novel by Jack Kerouac
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: JK
"His first novel is a revelation ...the writing is vivid, serious and extraordinary ...wonderful". ("The Times"). "The Sea is My Brother" is Jack Kerouac's very first novel, begun shortly after his tour as a merchant sailor in 1942. Lost during his lifetime, it is an intense portrait of friendship and b ...Show more
The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac; Ann Douglas (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac's early classic, On The Road. Centering on the tempestous breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox--two denizens of the 1950s San Fran ...Show more
The Town and the City by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A coming of age story, which draws on the author's New England childhood.
Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Tristessa is the name with which Kerouac baptized Esperanza Villanueva, a Catholic Mexican young woman, a prostitute and addict to certain drugs, whom he fell in love with during one of his stays in Mexico -a country that he frequently visited - by the middle of the fifties. Wrapped in a spiritual atmos ...Show more
VISIONS OF CODY by KEROUAC JACK
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: JK
Written during 1951-52, this novel was an underground legend by the time it was finally published in 1972. Written in an experimental form, Kerouac created the ultimate account of his voyages with Neal Cassady, which he captured in a different form for On the Road.