Desolate Angel A Biography: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America by Dennis McNally
Desolate Angel A Biography: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America by Dennis McNally is a 400-page hardcover published by Random House New York, 1979. The dust jacket has chips, tears and surface rubbing. The book is clean, with unmarked pages and straight binding. Book Summary From the drama of Jack Kerouac's own troubled life evolved a controversial new American anti-hero who came alive in On the Road, The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans and a score of his other books. The prototype of the New Romantic and the New Consciousness, Kerouac prefigured the turned-on, dropped-out, ecstatic wandering hero of the 1960's. Nearly a half a century has passed since the first public furor over Kerouac and his friends, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and William Burroughs, but they are now recognized as the catalysts for an enormous postwar shift in American literature and culture. Kerouac--"King of the Beats" and unwitting spokesman for one generation's underground--was a complex and co