Full name: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954

Authors: Jack Kerouac, Douglas Brinkley Year: 1947 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780143036067 0143036068

Jack Kerouac is best known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels. Yet it is only his private journals, in which he set down the raw material of his life and thinking, that reveal to us the real Kerouac. In Windblown World, distinguished Americanist Douglas Brinkley has gathered a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of Kerouac's life, 1947 to 1954. Here is Kerouac as a hungry young writer finishing his first novel while forging crucial friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. Truly a self-portrait of the artist as a young man, this unique and indispensable volume is sure to become an integral element of the Beat oeuvre. Similar books: The First Third by Neal Cassady Off the Road by Carolyn Cassady Naked Angels by John Tytell Baby Driver by Jan Kerouac Why Kerouac Matters by John Leland There's More to Life Than This by Theresa Caputo The Duck Commander Family by Willie Robertson To Selena, with Love by Chris Perez Undisputed Truth by Mike Tyson The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle by Michael J. Mooney Hitman by Bret Hart The Writer's Tale by Russell T. Davies The Women of Duck Commander by Kay Robertson A Lion's Tale by Chris Jericho Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict Winning Ugly by Brad Gilbert Shadow of the Almighty by Elisabeth Elliot Racing Through the Dark by David Millar Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh Coco Chanel by Megan Hess