beat generation

Anthology of Kerouac's writings including selections from the series of autobiographical novels called The legend of Duluoz with an identity key matching the characters with the real people they represent.

Discusses the Beat Generation, a group of poets, thinkers, and visionaries such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Gregory Corso, that formed after the political, economic, cultural, and ideological tensions in the U.S. after 1945.

Contains thirty-two essays in which various authors discuss issues related to the Nuclear Age, from 1945 through the 1980s, discussing the atom bomb, the Iron Curtain, Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolent resistance, communism, the space race, segregation, Vietnam, apartheid, and other topics.

A fortieth-anniversary edition of the novel that defined the beat generation of the 1950s, in which Sal Paradise tells about his travels throughout the North American continent in search of belief and meaning.

Presents the previously unpublished original scroll edition of Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road" which Kerouac wrote over a three-week period in 1951 on eight sheets of tracing paper that he taped together to form a 120-foot scroll, and includes the real names of the friends that inspired the book's storyline.

An autobiographical work of fiction in which Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac discusses how he overcame his alcohol addiction.

When people on earth are bathed in a blue light from the stars, they are instantly transformed into smarter, healthier, and more loving beings, but soon conflict develops between those who have seen the light and those who haven't, and Chance seems to be the only one who can keep the peace.