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 the age of seventeen, Marco Martinez was a thug At the age of twenty-two, he was a hero Hard Corps tells the story of a young man’s incredibletransformation from gun-toting gang member to recipient of the NavyCross, the second-highest honor a U.S. Marine can receive. Gritty,riveting, and ultimately inspiring, Hard Corps captures the“ooh-rah” spirit of the U.S. Marine Corps and the grueling life onthe front lines.
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
Moody's famous autobiography is a classic work on growing uppoor and Black in the rural South. Her searing account of lifebefore the Civil Rights Movement is as moving as The Color Purpleand as important as And Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. "A history ofour time . . . (and) a reminder that we cannot now relax".--SenatorEdward Kennedy.
A PRESIDENTIAL DYNASTY. AN ARAB TERRORIST ATTACK. DEMOCRACYUNDER SIEGE. Mario Puzo envisioned it all in his eerily prescient1991 novel, The Fourth K. President Francis Xavier Kennedy is elected to office, in largepart, thanks to the legacy of his forebears–good looks, privilege,wealth–and is the very embodiment of youthful optimism. Too soon,however, he is beaten down by the political process and, disabusedof his ideals, he becomes a leader totally unlike what he has beenbefore. When his daughter becomes a pawn in a brutal terrorist plot,Kennedy, who has obsessively kept alive the memory of his uncles’assassinations, activates all his power to retaliate in a series ofviolent measures. As the explosive events unfold, the world andthose closest to him look on with both awe and horror.
In the spring of 1884 Ulysses S. Grant heeded the advice of MarkTwain and finally agreed to write his memoirs. Little did Grant orTwain realize that this seemingly straightforward decision wouldprofoundly alter not only both their lives but the course ofAmerican literature. Over the next fifteen months, as the two menbecame close friends and intimate collaborators, Grant racedagainst the spread of cancer to compose a triumphant account of hislife and times—while Twain struggled to complete and publish hisgreatest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . Inthis deeply moving and meticulously researched book, veteran writerMark Perry reconstructs the heady months when Grant and Twaininspired and cajoled each other to create two quintessentiallyAmerican masterpieces. In a bold and colorful narrative, Perry recounts the early careersof these two giants, traces their quest for fame and elusivefortunes, and then follows the series of events that brought themtogether as friends. The reason Grant let Twain talk
From the moment of its publication in 1977, Haywire was anational sensation and a #1 bestseller, a celebrated Hollywoodmemoir of a glittering family and the stunning darkness that lurkedjust beneath the surface. Brooke Hayward was born into the most enviable of circumstances.The daughter of a famous actress and a successful Hollywood agent,she was beautiful, wealthy, and living at the very center of themost privileged life America had to offer. Yet at twenty-three herfamily was ripped apart. Who could have imagined that this magicallife could shatter, so conclusively, so destructively? BrookeHayward tells the riveting story of how her family wenthaywire.
Song for My Fathers is the story of a young white boy driven bya consuming passion to learn the music and ways of a group of agingblack jazzmen in the twilight years of the segregation era.Contemporaries of Louis Armstrong, most of them had played in localobscurity until Preservation Hall launched a nationwide revival ofinterest in traditional jazz. They called themselves “the mens.”And they welcomed the young apprentice into their ranks. The boy was introduced into this remarkable fellowship by hisfather, an eccentric Southern liberal and failed novelist whosepowerful articles on race had made him one of the most effectivepolemicists of the early Civil Rights movement. Nurtured on hisfather’s belief in racial equality, the aspiring clarinetistembraced the old musicians with a boundless love and admiration.The narrative unfolds against the vivid backdrop of New Orleans inthe 1950s and ‘60s. But that magical place is more than decor; itis perhaps the central player, for this story could not have taken
