作者 : Jack Kerouac 出版社: Penguin Classics 出版年: 2000-2 页数: 320 定价: GBP 8.99 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780141182674 内容简介 On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion. 作者简介 杰克 凯鲁亚克（Jack Kerouac, 1922-1969），1922年3月12日，凯鲁亚克出生于马萨诸塞州洛厄尔，父母为法裔美国人，他是家中幼子。他曾在当地天主教和公立学校就读，以橄榄球奖学金入纽约哥伦比亚大学，结识爱伦 金斯堡、威廉 巴勒斯和尼尔 卡萨迪等 垮掉的一代 。
Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King's advice is grounded in the vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999 - and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. There is a reason why Stephen King is one of the bestselling writers in the world, ever. Described in the Guardian as 'the most remarkable storyteller in modern American literature', Stephen King writes books that draw you in and are impossible to put down.
The New York Times Bestseller That Reads Like a Back-PorchConversation with Reba! In a dazzling career, Reba McEntire has become a true countrysuperstar--and a trailblazing businesswoman with her own multimediaentertainment corporation. Yet she is a rare celebrity who is alsobeloved by her millions of fans for the way she lives her life. ForReba has balanced the demands of career and family, succeeded inshow business without sacrificing her values, and kept up with thetimes without abandoning her country roots. Here Reba writes about the roles a modern woman tries to fill,roles as many and varied as the fabric pieces of an heirloom quilt.Facing the challenges of being a wife, mother, stepmother,daughter, sister, performer, executive, community member, andChristian, Reba has found inspiration and comfort in the values ofher past as an Oklahoma ranch girl. In this generous and wise book,she shows how you can keep traditional values fresh and vital inyour own search for a fulfilling life. Whether you read it
Country music superstar Reba McEntire describes her Oklahomachildhood as a member of a cattle ranching family, her early daysas a performer, her award-winning musical achievements, the tragicloss of her eight band members, and her marriages. Reprint.
In 1987, John Rember returned home to Sawtooth Valley, wherehe had been brought up. He returned out of a homing instinct: thesame forty acres that had sustained his family’s horses hadsustained a vision of a place where he belonged in the world, alife where he could get up in the morning, step out the door, andcatch dinner from the Salmon River. But to his surprise, he foundthat what was once familiar was now unfamiliar. Everything mighthave looked the same to the horses that spring, but to Rember thiswas no longer home. In Traplines , Rember recounts his experiences of growing upin a time when the fish were wild in the rivers, horses werebrought into the valley each spring from their winter pasture, andelectric light still seemed magical. Today those same experiencesno longer seem to possess the authenticity they once did. In hisjourney home, Rember discovers how the West, both as a place inwhich to live and as a terrain of the imagination, has beentransformed. And he wonders whether his recollections o
Norman O. Brown was a scholar, poet and revolutionary who madea lasting impression on the sixties generation. His distinctivefusion of Marxism, psychoanalysis and classical literature inspiredstudents across the United States and in Europe to participate inthe political upheaval of that time. His books, including Love’sBody and Life Against Death, are still being used in collegeclassrooms throughout the country. This memorial volume has two sections, the first presenting apreviously unpublished autobiographical essay in which Browndetails both his family and intellectual background prior toarriving in the United States at the University of Chicago. The second section contains a number of short meditations on hislife and work by friends, family and colleagues. The pieces arepoetic and insightful, a true testimony to the kind of thinkingBrown inspired. They were presented originally during a memorialgathering at the University of California Santa Cruz, whichincluded, among others, his colle
