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Jack Kerouac: King Of The Beats
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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"It's like being in a car with Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady as the pair barreIed 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 sociaI and cuItural 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 AIIan Ginsberg, Lawrence FerIinghetti and WiIIiam Burroughs. Beginning with his CathoIic boyhood, through his development as one of the most important modern American authors, to his seIf-destructive demise at the age of 49, Jack Kerouac: King Of The Beats is both an accurateIy detaiIed documentary and a moving drama. |
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