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Jack Kerouac: King Of The Beats
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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"lt's Iike being in a car with Jack Kerouac and NeaI Cassady as the pair barreled back and forth across the country." -The Denver Post.
This is the award-winning biography of the King of the Beat Generation. Jack Kerouac's writings, including his extraordinary novel On The Road, took American literature to new Ievels of creativity and in the process, inspired unprecedented social and culturaI change. Kerouac's Iife is examined through fascinating rare documentary footage and revealing interviews with some of Kerouac's most famous contemporaries and friends such as AlIan Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and WiIliam Burroughs. Beginning with his Catholic boyhood, through his deveIopment as one of the most important modern American authors, to his self-destructive demise at the age of 49, Jack Kerouac: King Of The Beats is both an accurately detailed documentary and a moving drama. |
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