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by: Jack Kerouac
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780140587005
ISBN: 0140587004
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: September 01, 1995
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Sales Rank: 714873
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Rating:  - what an excellent use of imagery!
this book has so many unique qualities to it, and they all focus so much on Kerouac's unusual lifestyle... the book, with it's so many chouruses is an inspiration!
Rating:  - Book of Blues
Contains the outstanding 'Desolation Blues'. Otherwise unremarkable
Rating: - Jack Kerouac's Book of Blues
Kerouac's Book of Blues is an important book for anyone interested in Kerouac's spontaneous style of writing. For those more familiar with his novels and prose Book of Blues will open a more pure and raw form of verse than even "On the Road". Kerouac was truly a poet at heart. To get the full effect of this book which reaaly needs to be read aloud to full experience I also highly recommend Kerouac's Blues & Haikus CD which contains him reading several of the poems in Book of Blues.
Rating: - Book of Blues works together with Desolation Angels
Book of Blues is an important piece of writing that chronicles an important time in Kerouac's life and works well with Desolation Angels. As I read Desolation Angels, I noticed that Jack Duluoz makes references to various works of poetry as he moves through the book and Book of Blues contains many of those poems. Desolation Blues was written about his time on Desolation Peak and accompanies that section of the book well. You begin to understand Jack's thoughts and anxities better. Later Jack is in ... Read More
Rating: - author well known during the'60's ; all ways had good conten
I first read Kerouac's writtings over 30 years ago. The content of this work is firm but is limited in it's scope and focus. The author usually slips into a tanghent that not many of us would comprehend unless we had lived in the 1960's.
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