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...KEROUAC by ANN CHARTERS 384 pages. Straight Arrow...
VISIONS OF CODY by JACK KEROUAC 398 pages. McGraw-Hill...
...team and play just as well. The adult learns that politicians do not have to fool all the people all the time; some of the time is usually sufficient. Now, as if the world were not disillusioning enough, we find out in Ann Charters' forthcoming biography that Jack Kerouac did not drive...
...Kerouac, the author of On the Road, the Jack that journalism built into the king of the Beat Generation and the Zen terror of the transcontinental blacktop, sat passively in the passenger's seat and watched his life, reflected in the American landscape, go by like so many flaking Burma Shave signs. "I'm doomed to these universal watchfulnesses," he wrote, though not as effortlessly as Kerouac readers were once led to believe. Author Charters dispels the popular misconception that On the Road leaped spontaneously out of Kerouac's head and onto the 120-ft. roll...
Nonstop. Like Thomas Wolfe and other American romanticists, Kerouac found his main preoccupation as a writer in his own responses to himself. He celebrated the open road, the moment intensified by Benzedrine and marijuana and writing nonstop off the top of his head. But Kerouac lived mainly in his memories. "Nostalgia dominated Jack's soul," said his friend and most eloquent eulogist Allen Ginsberg, who also saw Kerouac as "the last of the great American Christian drinkers." It was alcohol that contributed to the abdominal hemorrhaging that killed him three years...