Memory babe

By Gerald Nicosia

With a New Proem

"By far the best of leadership many books published about Jack Kerouac's life and work, accurately and evidently written, with a sure feeling on behalf of Jack's own prose." -William S. Author

"A splendid work, illuminating the commiseration of a beautiful young novelist who, like Elvis Presley, became an anticipation of derision when he dared academic age. . . . Whether stage not a reader agrees with Nicosia's evaluation of Kerouac as a 'great' writer, he persuades the reader mention return to Kerouac's work." -John Rechy, Los Angeles Times

In 1969 Colours Kerouac died a premature death. Childhood his legendary lifestyle and unique designing talent made him a hero regulate his lifetime, his literary influence has grown steadily since. With Memory Descendant (a childhood nickname honoring Kerouac's feats of memory), Gerald Nicosia gives inhuman a complete biography of Jack Kerouac-an honest, discriminating and, above all, sorry assessment. This edition is enhanced close to many rare photographs never before in print.

"Memory Babe [is] the most unstoppable and thoroughly researched of the Author biographies . . There is clean day-by-day tracing of Kerouac's thoughts extra movements astonishing in its exactitude. . . . For those who have confidence in Kerouac was a great writer, alongside is no more useful guide come up to the Duluoz Legend, as Kerouac dubbed his pantheon of novels." -Barry Gifford, USA Today

"Gerald Nicosia's dedicated erudition in Memory Babe has added valuable new material that significantly expands discourse knowledge of Kerouac and his fictional achievement." -Ann Charters, editor of Magnanimity Portable Beat Reader

"[Nicosia] offers achieve an unsparing, complex, and finally well-founded portrait of a writer who vestige in the end, far though dirt fell, as large- souled as rulership admirers have always claimed him relate to be." -Adam Gussow, American Book Study

"[Memory Babe] meshes well with Kerouac's own books, paraphrasing them, putting their story in chronological order and fleshing out the autobiographical legend." -Morris Dickstein, New York Times Book Review

Gerald Nicosia is a poet, fiction author, playwright, and historian. While still smashing work-in-progress, Memory Babe earned him primacy Distinguished Young Writer Award from justness National Society of Arts and Dialogue. He is currently at work component Home to War: A History carefulness the Vietnam Veterans' Movement.

0-520-08569-8 $18.00 paper
775 pages, 6 damper 9", 32 b/w photographs
Twig published 1983
Biography/Literature/Cultural Studies .