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 。
At fifteen, sick of her unbearable and increasingly dangeroushome life, Janice Erlbaum walked out of her family’s Brooklynapartment and didn’t look back. From her first frightening night ata shelter, Janice knew she was in over her head. She was beaten up,shaken down, and nearly stabbed by a pregnant girl. But it wasstill better than living at home. As Janice slipped further intostreet life, she nevertheless attended high school, harboredcrushes, and even played the lead in the spring musical. She alsoroamed the streets, clubs, bars, and parks of New York City withher two best girlfriends, on the prowl for hard drugs and boys onskateboards. Together they scored coke at Danceteria, smoked angeldust in East Village squats, commiserated over their crazy mothers,and slept with one another’s boyfriends on a regular basis. A wry, mesmerizing portrait of being underprivileged, underage, andunderdressed in 1980s New York City, Girlbomb provides anunflinching look at street life, survival sex, female friends
William Kittredge's stunning memoir is at once autobiography, a family chronicle, and a Westerner's settling of accounts with the land he grew up in. This is the story of a grandfather whose single-minded hunger for property won him a ranch the size of Delaware but estranged him from his family; of a father who farmed with tractors and drainage ditches but consorted with movie stars; and of Kittredge himself, who was raised by cowboys and saw them become
