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 。

“Alice writes like he golfs: straight and right down themiddle. Like a lot of us golf addicts, he's spent his fair share ofhis life getting out of the rough and back onto the green. Ifyou're like me and only read like a book a year (OK, like everydecade), this should be the one.” —John Daly “What a blast from the past, and such insight to the future!Alice Cooper, Golf Monster shares Alice's personal life mission,interwoven with great stories and characters from the 60's throughthe present in Rock and Roll. Not to mention some wonderful golftips and experiences, humorously presented. Thank you Alice, for anice ride!” —Michael Douglas, actor and creator of the Michael Douglas Friends Charity Golf Tournament “Few things are more surreal than playing golf with a guy namedAlice. But by the time you reach the second tee, you realize thatNo More Mr. Nice Guy is one of the wittiest and engaging playingpartners you've ever had. Plus, the guy can play! For tho

A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, AllSouls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald's Southie,the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration ofwhite poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger's crime schemesand busing riots, MacDonald's Southie is populated by sharply hewncharacters like his Ma, a miniskirted, accordion-playing singlemother who endures the deaths of four of her eleven children.Nearly suffocated by his grief and his community's code of silence,MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but movinghonesty.

He was one of pro football’s most beloved and respected stars,admired not only by NFL fans and his own teammates, but by hisopponents as well. Super Bowl champion; six time Pro Bowler; NFLComeback Player of the Year; NFL Man of the Year; fifth all-timeleading rusher in the NFL; future Hall of Famer; now NBC Sportscommentator. You may think you know Jerome Bettis, but you don’t. In The Bus, Jerome Bettis tells his full, unvarnished story forthe first time--from his sometimes troubled childhood in inner-cityDetroit to his difficult transition at Notre Dame, to a pro coachwho almost caused him to quit the game, to a trade for the agesthat resulted in ten glorious seasons with the PittsburghSteelers. As a chunky child wearing glasses, Jerome’s only sports-relatedaspiration was to become a professional bowler. But growing up inone of the roughest neighborhoods in Detroit, he eventually foundhis escape on the high school football field, thanks to thedevotion of hard-working parents, a

“Powerful. . . . A challenging, disturbing portrait of ademocratic hero, and an equally challenging case study of thedemocratic system.” —The New York Times “Rich in insight into Jackson’s personality. . . . Burstein makesfair on his promise to look dispassionately at this most passionateof presidents. . . . A very readable, insightful analysis into thecharacter and evolution of the American republic.” —PlainDealer “Excellent. . . . A must-read for anyone interested in thepresidency or early American history.” –Flint Journal “A useful, persuasively critical account of the development ofJackson’s self-image as an honorable patriarch and champion ofrighteous government..” —The Washington Post Book World “Impressive. . . . Persuasive. . . . Argues that the times shapedJackson and thrust him into the White House as the first ‘commoner’elected president because he so personified the young nation’sbold, brash spirit and s

After two thousand years of flawed history, here at last is amagnificent new biography of Mary Magdalene that draws her out ofthe shadows of history and restores her to her rightful place ofimportance in Christianity.Throughout history, Mary Magdalene hasbeen both revered and reviled, a woman who has taken on manyforms—witch, whore, the incarnation of the eternal feminine, thedevoted companion (and perhaps even the wife) of Jesus. In thisbrilliant new biography, Bruce Chilton, a renowned biblicalscholar, offers the first complete and authoritative portrait ofthis fascinating woman. Through groundbreaking interpretations ofancient texts, Chilton shows that Mary played a central role inJesus’ ministry and was a seminal figure in the creation ofChristianity. Chilton’s de*ions of who Mary Magdalene was and what she didchallenge the male-dominated history of Christianity familiar tomost readers. Placing Mary within the traditions of Jewish femalesavants, Chilton presents a visionary figure who was fully imm

After Out on a Limb , MacLaine now offers more of her familybackground, with reproductions of parental game-playingconversations which must evoke poignant recognitions in children ofconflicting adults. Aided by spirit-guided acupuncture, she hasbeen recovering past-life experiences enabling her to deal withthis pain. Most moving is her meeting with her Higher Self, whichcontinues to guide her. Another colorful love affair in Paris andHollywood provides food for the gossip-column fans. More seriousare her ruminations on creative artistry, first as a dancer, thenas a movie star. Even readers put off by MacLaine's uncritical andwholehearted embrace of reincarnation will have to applaud hercandor and zest for discovering the meaning of her life. Jeanne S.Bagby, Tucson P.L., Ariz. Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information,Inc.

"Perhaps Mr. Stearn's greatest achievement . . . is that hehas given his subject such universality. The reader is left withthe firm conviction, not that Edgar Cayce was a unique'odd-man-out,' but that he spoke for the sleeping prophet that liesdormant in every human being." -- Noel Langley The life and story of Edgar Cayce is one of the most compellingin metaphysical literature. For more than forty years, the"Sleeping Prophet" closed his eyes, entered into an altered stateof consciousness, and spoke to the very heart and spirit ofhumankind on subjects such as health, healing, dreams, prophecy,meditation, and reincarnation. Now in a 30th Anniversary SpecialEdition printing, Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet is afascinating biography that will hold the reader spellbound andleaving him or her in wonder at the the potential of humankind. -- Midwest Book Review --This text refers to an out ofprint or unavailable edition of this title.

Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music iconCarlos Santana–a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But asa girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of awhite mother and a black father–the legendary blues guitaristSaunders King–her life was charged with its own drama long beforeshe married. In this beautiful, haunting memoir, Deborah Santana shares forthe first time her early experiences with racial intolerance, herromantic involvement with musician Sly Stone and the suffering sheendured in that relationship, and her adventures in thefreewheeling 1960s. Yet it is her spiritual awakening that is thecore of this story. The civil rights movement was the foundation ofher growth, the Woodstock era the backdrop of her love with Carlos.The couple was drawn indelibly together by a search for truth andspirituality, but while yearning to be filled with God’s light,they were pulled dangerously toward a manipulative cult. Theyeventually disengage themselves from th

Like Abigail Adams, Malvina Shanklin Harlan witnessed—andgently influenced—national history from the unique perspective of apolitical leader’s wife. Her husband, Supreme Court Justice JohnMarshall Harlan (1833–1911), played a central role in some of themost significant civil rights decisions of his era, including hislone dissenting opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, the infamous casethat endorsed separate but equal segregation. And for fifty-sevenyears he was married to a woman who was busy making a mental recordof their eventful lives. After Justice Harlan’s death in 1911, Malvina wrote Some Memoriesof a Long Life, 1854–1911, as a testament to her husband’saccomplishments and to her own. The memoir begins with Malvina, thedaughter of passionate abolitionists, becoming the teenage bride ofJohn Marshall Harlan, whose family owned more than a dozen slaves.Malvina depicts her life in antebellum Kentucky, and her courageousdefense of the Harlan homestead during the Civil War. She writes ofh

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