Desolate Angel - by Dennis McNally (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Featuring a new Afterword by the author, this is the long-awaited reissue of the definitive biography of Jack Kerouac, the unwitting avatar of the Beat Generation and author of "On the Road." of photos.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A blockbuster of a biography . . . absolutely magnificent.--<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></b> <p/>Jack Kerouac--King of the Beats, unwitting catalyst for the '60s counterculture, groundbreaking author--was a complex and compelling man: a star athlete with a literary bent; a spontaneous writer vilified by the New Critics but adored by a large, youthful readership; a devout Catholic but aspiring Buddhist; a lover of freedom plagued by crippling alcoholism.<i><br></i><i><br></i><i>Desolate Angel</i> follows Kerouac from his childhood in the mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, to his early years at Columbia where he met Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady, beginning a four-way friendship that would become a sociointellectual legend. In rich detail and with sensitivity, Dennis McNally recounts Kerouac's frenetic cross-country journeys, his experiments with drugs and sexuality, his travels to Mexico and Tangier, the sudden fame that followed the publication of <i>On the Road, </i>the years of literary triumph, and the final near-decade of frustration and depression.<br><i>Desolate Angel</i> is a harrowing, compassionate portrait of a man and an artist set in an extraordinary social context. The metamorphosis of America from the Great Depression to the Kennedy administration is not merely the backdrop for Kerouac's life but is revealed to be an essential element of his art . . . for Kerouac was above all a witness to his exceptional times.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Dennis McNally</b> is an author, historian, and music publicist. His books include <i>On Highway 61: Music, Race and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom, A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead</i>, and <i>Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation & America</i>. He lives in San Francisco.
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