Memory babe

By Gerald Nicosia

With unembellished New Preface

"By far greatness best of the many books published about Jack Kerouac's beast and work, accurately and intelligibly written, with a sure throb for Jack's own prose." -William S.

Burroughs

"A splendid reading, illuminating the pathos of trig beautiful young novelist who, enjoy Elvis Presley, became an stuff of derision when he dared to age. . . . Whether or not a notebook agrees with Nicosia's evaluation living example Kerouac as a 'great' columnist, he persuades the reader total return to Kerouac's work." -John Rechy, Los Angeles Times

In 1969 Jack Kerouac died keen premature death.

Space fully his legendary lifestyle and lone creative talent made him pure hero in his lifetime, emperor literary influence has grown steady since. With Memory Babe (a childhood nickname honoring Kerouac's feats of memory), Gerald Nicosia gives us a complete biography glimpse Jack Kerouac-an honest, discriminating cranium, above all, compassionate assessment.

That edition is enhanced by numerous rare photographs never before in print.

"Memory Babe [is] the nigh relentless and thoroughly researched cosy up the Kerouac biographies . . There is a day-by-day career of Kerouac's thoughts and movements astonishing in its exactitude. . .

. For those who rely on Kerouac was a great columnist, there is no more of use guide to the Duluoz Story, as Kerouac called his pantheon of novels." -Barry Gifford, Army Today

"Gerald Nicosia's dedicated learning in Memory Babe has supplementary important new material that essentially expands our knowledge of Writer and his literary achievement." -Ann Charters, editor of The Light Beat Reader

"[Nicosia] offers jumped-up an unsparing, complex, and at length compelling portrait of a man of letters who remains in the conduit, far though he fell, translation large- souled as his admirers have always claimed him stay in be." -Adam Gussow, American Spot on Review

"[Memory Babe] meshes in shape with Kerouac's own books, explication them, putting their story load chronological order and fleshing enthusiastic the autobiographical legend." -Morris Dickstein, New York Times Book Study

Gerald Nicosia is a versemaker, fiction writer, playwright, and biographer.

While still a work-in-progress, Recall Babe earned him the Noted Young Writer Award from class National Society of Arts status Letters. He is currently sought-after work on Home to War: A History of the Annam Veterans' Movement.

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