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by: Jim Jones
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781550223750
ISBN: 1550223755
Label: Ecw Press
Manufacturer: Ecw Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 184
Publication Date: March 01, 1999
Publisher: Ecw Press
Sales Rank: 2144445
Studio: Ecw Press
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Product Description:
With this fascinating new book, Jim Jones debunks many of the myths surrounding the life and times of Jack Kerouac. Jones concentrates on those whose lives were most affected by Kerouac: daughter Jan Kerouac, wives Edie Parker, Joan Haverty, and Stella Sampac, as well as nephew Paul Blake Jr. Use My Name: Jack Kerouac's Forgotten Families takes its title from advice given to Jan during her second and final meeting with Jack, who encouraged her to profit from the surname she shared with the famous author of On the Road. Sadly, not one of these individuals so closely tied to Kerouac seems to have benefited from the connection, as Jones discovers in his in-depth interview with Jan. She discusses at length her 15 months as a prostitute, her own divorces, her hospitalization, and her life as an author, including a wild European book tour for Baby Driver. Although Kerouac is one of the most “biographied” American writers of our time, Jones offers a new perspective on the King of the Beats and his generation, one in which formerly marginalized figures in the Kerouac story—particularly women—become strong, central characters. He also exposes the cut-throat wheeling and dealing that has plagued the Kerouac estate and that continues today as the various players do battle over the legacy of one of the counterculture's biggest idols.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Good, but perhaps a bit too opinionated....
Basic overview of the author's relationship to Jan Kerouac - he interviewed her to do her biography, this went all right for a while and she decided she did not like him anymore. Seems to be no real reason for this but it happened anyway. Jones does not seem hurt by this and still sees Kerouac as an interesting and worthy subject.
I think this is an interesting area not tapped into very much, since Jan and Jack had no relationship whatsoever, though anyone who has read her books can ... Read More
Rating: - Kerouac's forgotten families
well it certainly was an eye opener to greed and what a messed up family they were........ to bad to bad about alot of things huh ... but still a good book for any kerouac fanatic ... a good thing to have in your collection on kerouac
Rating:  - a necessary probe of relationships,& dependencies
I hope to meet author at 12th annual Lowell Celebrates Jack Kerouac Days in Lowell---early October...discuss his forthcoming related title-
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