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Desolate Angel by Dennis McNally Book Summary
"A blockbuster of a biography . . . absolutely magnificent."--San Francisco Chronicle
Jack Kerouac--"King of the Beats," unwitting catalyst for the '60s counterculture, groundbreaking author--was a complex and compelling man: a star athlete with a literary bent; a spontaneous writer vilified by the New Critics but adored by a large, youthful readership; a devout Catholic but aspiring Buddhist; a lover of freedom plagued by crippling alcoholism.
Desolate Angel follows Kerouac from his childhood in the mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, to his early years at Columbia where he met Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady, beginning a four-way friendship that would become a sociointellectual legend. In rich detail and with sensitivity, Dennis McNally recounts Kerouac's frenetic cross-country journeys, his experiments with drugs and sexuality, his travels to Mexico and Tangier, the sudden fame that followed the publication of On the Road, the years of literary triumph, and the final near-decade of frustration and depression.
Desolate Angel is a harrowing, compassionate portrait of a man and an artist set in an extraordinary social context. The metamorphosis of America from the Great Depression to the Kennedy administration is not merely the backdrop for Kerouac's life but is revealed to be an essential element of his art . . . for Kerouac was above all a witness to his exceptional times.
Book Name | Desolate Angel |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
Author | Dennis McNally |
Published | 24 March 2020, Tuesday |
Language | English |
E-Book Size | 2.37 MB |
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The Desolate Angel book written by Dennis McNally was published on 24 March 2020, Tuesday in the Literary Criticism category. A total of 160 readers of the book gave the book 0 points out of 5.
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