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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs & Jack Kerouac
$35.00 AUD
$40.00 (12% off)
Category: Fiction
In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer, whose sexual advances he'd seemingly grown tired of rejecting. Carr, still in bloodstained clothes, had come to each of them and confessed; Kerou ...Show more
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to 'get away to solitude again or die', so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast. The resulting novel, in which his autobiographical hero Jac ...Show more
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
$28.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: JK
Published just one year after "On The Road", this is the story of two men engaged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.
En el Camino (On the Road Spanish Edition) by Jack Kerouac
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
On the Road, a book that was the bible and manifesto of the beat generation, has become a "cult novel" and a North American classic. With its unmistaken bop style, this novel is a portrait of an underground America, authentic and uninhibited, far from any kind of establishment.
Haunted Life by Jack Kerouac
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1944, twenty-two year old Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript called The Haunted Life. It turned up thirteen years later in a Columbia University dormitory, and then in 2002, at a Sotheby's auction house. Now, 70 years after Kerouac wrote it, his second novel will be published for the first ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
$40.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights), Kristen Stew ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassio ...Show more
Robert Frank: The Americans by Jack Kerouac
$55.00 AUD
Category: Photography
First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In 83 photographs, Frank looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill-served by their politicians and rendered ...Show more
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Published just one year after "On The Road", this is the story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.
The Sea is My Brother by Jack Kerouac
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Published in its entirety for the first time, "The Sea is My Brother" is Jack Kerouac's first novel. Described by Kerouac as being about 'man's simple revolt from society as it is, with the inequalities, frustration, and self-inflicted agonies', the 158-page handwritten manuscript was not published duri ...Show more
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