Atop an Underwood : early stories and other writings / Jack Kerouac ; edited with an introduction and commentary by Paul Marion.

Author/creator Kerouac, Jack
Other author Marion, Paul, 1954-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Viking, 1999.
Descriptionxxii, 249 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Partial contents Part one: Pine forests and pure thought 1963-1940. Repulsion may race here in exhibition feature!! -- Jack Lewis's Baseball Chatter -- [One long strange dream] -- Count Baasie's band best in land; group famous for "solid" swing -- Go back -- Nothing -- A play I want to write -- Concentration -- We thronged -- [A day in September] -- [I know I am August] -- Radio script : the spirit of '14 -- [I remember the days of my youth] -- Where the road begins -- New York nite club-- ; Part two: An original kicker 1941. There's something about a cigar -- God -- If I were wealthy -- [One Sunday afternoon in July] -- The birth of a socialist -- No connection : a novel that I don't intend to finish -- On the porch, remembering -- The sandbank sage -- Farewell song, sweet from my trees -- [I have to pull up my stakes and roll, man] -- Odyssey (continued) -- [At 18, I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion] -- Observations -- Definition of a poet -- America in the night -- Woman going to Hartford -- Old love-light -- I tell you it is October! -- [Here I am at last with a typewriter] -- [Atop an underwood : introduction] -- The good jobs -- From Radio City to the Crown -- --Little cottage by the sea-- -- The juke box is saving America -- --Hartford after work-- -- --Legends and legends-- -- --A Kerouac that turned out sublime-- -- The father of my father -- Credo -- --Hungry young writer's notebook-- -- A young writer's notebook -- [I am going to stress a new set of values] -- [I am my mother's son] -- [Howdy!] -- Today -- This I do know-- -- Search by night ; Part three: To portray life accurately 1942-1943. Sadness at six -- The joy of Duluoz -- Famine for the heart -- [The very thing I live for] -- The mystery -- Thinking of Thomas Wolfe on a winter's night -- Beauty as a lasting truth.
Abstract An anthology of early stories by the poet of the Beat generation. Topics range from his time in Columbia University, from which he was expelled, to an excerpt from a novel which is based on his service in the merchant marine.
Genre/formProofs (Printing) United States 20th century.
LCCN 99020052
ISBN0670888222

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Joyner General Stacks PS3521.E735 A92 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold