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Jack Kerouac, king of the Beats
a portrait
By Miles, Barry
- ISBN
- 978-0-80506-043-0
- Publisher
- New York : H. Holt, 1998.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 1998
Miles paints an unflattering portrait of Kerouac in this, his third biography on a major writer of the Beat Generation (e.g., William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible, LJ 8/93). Viewing Kerouac as "insensitive, selfish, and cowardly," an alcoholic with a deep-seated Oedipal complex who remained "a perpetual adolescent," he chastises him for his rac...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
