Memory Babe by Gerald Nicosia
This biography of Kerouac covers his life, his art and his place and influence in American literature. It spans Kerouac's entire life - integrating the Kerouac legend into a critical exploration of his work. The Kerouac that emerges is a complex, troubled, flawed human being and writer of genius with a haunted vision whose struggle to break free from almost every traditional American value he had been bred to accept was to come to a tragic end.
Nicosia, Gerald: - Gerald Nicosia is a biographer, historian, poet, playwright and novelist. His biography of Jack Kerouac, Memory Babe, won the Distinguished Young Writer Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters while still a work-in-progress. Called a great book by Allen Ginsberg and by far the best of the many books published about Jack Kerouac's life and work by William Burroughs, it is still widely regarded as the definitive work on Kerouac.From his years of work with Vietnam veterans on their issues of healing from the war came his book Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement, which won numerous honors and was picked by the Los Angeles Times as one of the Best Books of the Year in 2001. He has written numerous critical articles and reviews for almost every major newspaper in the U.S., and he publishes his poetry widely in the small presses, having earned a number of Pushcart nominations along the way. Nicosia was invited by Director Walter Salles to pioneer the Beat Boot Camp, creating an immersion experience for the actors in the upcoming major movie of On the Road.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140167856 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140167854 |
| Title | Memory Babe |
| Author | Gerald Nicosia |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1992-03-26 |
| Number of pages | 768 |
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