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The voice is all : the lonely victory of Jack Kerouac / Joyce Johnson.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780670025107
- ISBN: 0670025100
- Physical Description: xx, 489 p. ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Viking, c2012.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p 439-471) and index. |
| Summary, etc.: | A profile of the iconic author's early years offers insight into his efforts to bridge his dual cultural heritage while exploring how his French Canadian background enriched his prose. |
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| Subject: | Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. Authors, American > 20th century > Biography. Beat generation > Biography. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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Table of Contents
The Voice Is All : The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | p. xvii | |
| Part 1 | Franco-American Ghosts | |
| The Lost Brother | p. 3 | |
| Jean-Louis Kerouac | p. 14 | |
| Part 2 | A Half-American Boyhood | |
| La Salle de Mort | p. 27 | |
| A Catholic Education | p. 34 | |
| Pawtucketville | p. 43 | |
| Football Hero | p. 51 | |
| First Love | p. 61 | |
| Part 3 | An Uprooting | |
| Manhattan | p. 71 | |
| The Summer of Sebastian | p. 83 | |
| Columbia | p. 91 | |
| The Escape | p. 105 | |
| Part 4 | The War | |
| At Sea | p. 123 | |
| Edie Parker | p. 138 | |
| Part 5 | The Libertine Circle | |
| The Season of Lucien | p. 155 | |
| Birth of a Symbolist | p. 170 | |
| Apartment 51 | p. 184 | |
| Benzedrine Weekends | p. 199 | |
| A Father's Death | p. 209 | |
| Part 6 | Postwar | |
| Enter Neal Cassady | p. 219 | |
| The Road | p. 236 | |
| Reaching California | p. 247 | |
| Ozone Park | p. 256 | |
| Part 7 | "White Ambitions" | |
| The Conquest of Manhattan | p. 269 | |
| The Summer of Visions and Parties | p. 275 | |
| Enter John Clellon Holmes | p. 285 | |
| "The Rudeness of Being" | p. 297 | |
| Part 8 | "Rain and Rivers" | |
| "Whither Goest Thou in Thy Shiny Car at Night?" | p. 309 | |
| A Change in Luck | p. 320 | |
| Continental Divide | p. 332 | |
| The Edge of Success | p. 344 | |
| The French Canadian Older Brother | p. 356 | |
| Part 9 | The "Rush of Truth" | |
| The Unwritable Road Novel | p. 369 | |
| The Girl with the Innocent and Pure Eyes | p. 375 | |
| "The Voice Is All" | p. 380 | |
| The Road Opens Up | p. 392 | |
| Deep Form | p. 404 | |
| Part 10 | Interior Music | |
| Visions of Neal | p. 413 | |
| Tranced Fixations | p. 417 | |
| Rêves | p. 430 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 437 | |
| Notes | p. 439 | |
| Index | p. 473 |
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