Subterranean Kerouac
the hidden life of Jack Kerouac
by Ellis Amburn
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Drawing upon original interviews, his own relationship with Kerouac, Kerouac's recently published letters, and still-unpublished journals from the Kerouac archives, Ellis Amburn reveals an inner Kerouac that has not appeared in any previous biography. This is the "subterranean" Kerouac whom Amburn, the editor of his last two novels, knew personally, having witnessed the legendary Beat writer's decline into alcoholic despair during the last few years of his life.
Perhaps the greatest of Kerouac's conflicts centered around his sexual relationships with men. Amburn recounts what Kerouac himself told him about these experiences, which other biographers have never before reported, and sheds new light on their profound impact on the man who remained convinced until his death that he was not bisexual, and that homosexuality was in fact immoral.
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Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac
October 5, 1999, St. Martin's Griffin
Paperback
in English
- New Ed edition
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Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac
1999, St. Martin's Press
in English
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Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac
1999, St. Martin's Press
in English
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Subterranean Kerouac: the hidden life of Jack Kerouac
1998, St. Martin's Press
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-424) and index.
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"Jack Kerouac's childhood and adolescence were lived at a pitch of romantic intensity and fulfillment rarely equaled in his adulthood, when he became tormented, and often paralyzed, by conflicting sexual passions."
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