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Title: Good Blonde & Others by Jack Kerouac, Donald Allen ISBN: 0-912516-22-4 Publisher: Grey Fox Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: What Is Beat?
Comment: In attempting to discover what Kerouac meant by 'Beat,' what better way than to go back and read the three articles he wrote on the subject in the late 1950s? These were "Aftermath: The Philosophy of the Beat Generation," "Lamb, No Lion," and "The Origins of the Beat Generation." I think you'll find all the definitions, and more, that you could need in those three essays, which are all included in the collection of Kerouac's shorter prose, "Good Blonde & Others." For example, from the first essay:
"The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late Forties, of a generation of crazy illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, curious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way -- a vision gleaned from the way we had heard the word beat spoken on street corners on Times Square and in the Village, in other cities in the downtown-city-night of postwar America -- beat, meaning down and out but full of intense conviction."
There's much, much more in the full articles, so they must be the place to start. Read them, and learn directly from the person who invented the term 'Beat.'
Dave Moore
January 2004
Rating: 3
Summary: The good and the bad...
Comment: This book features works from across Kerouac's career and so, of course, has some good and some bad. When he uses sentance structure, he is great (Good Blonde), when he does the free form thing, he is not (almost the rest of the book). Only pick this up if you want to own everything by Kerouac. If you are a casual fan, stay away.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Collection of Works
Comment: "Good Blonde" is the jewel of this collection, but I was quite pleased with the quality of Kerouac's sporting stories, specifically "Ronnie on the Mound." Some of the personal essays on the values and characteristics of the Beat Movement get a little redundant (although I did enjoy the one that differentiates between "talent" and "genius"), but overall this is a great read.
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Title: Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac ISBN: 0140179070 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson ISBN: 0805070044 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd ISBN: 0142001740 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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