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 。
Descended from West African kings and healers, raised in theturbulence of Guinea in the 1960s, Kadiatou Diallo was married offat the age of thirteen and bore her first child when she wassixteen. Twenty-three years later, that child–a gentle, innocentyoung man named Amadou Diallo–was gunned down without cause on thestreets of New York City. Now Kadi Diallo tells the astonishing,inspiring story of her life, her loss, and the defiant strength shehas always found within.
The author of classic novels including Indiana and Lélia , George Sand is perhaps better known for herunconventional life. Belinda Jack unravels the many facets of thiswriter who counted among her friends and lovers everyone fromChopin and Liszt to Dostoyevsky and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.Sand defied convention by writing novels; but the fact that she wasa cigar-smoking cross-dresser who took male and female lovers,declared marriage “barbarous,” and championed socialism made her alegend. Allowing Sand’s voice to be heard, but wise enough toquestion it, Jack presents a riveting study of a woman raised byher aristocratic grandmother and her prostitute mother, and whoselife and work were forever fueled by rival worlds.
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "Easily the best book on Orson Welles." --The NewYorker Orson Welles arrived in Hollywood as a boygenius, became a legend with a single perfect film, and then spentthe next forty years floundering. But Welles floundered sovariously, ingeniously, and extravagantly that he turned failureinto "a sustaining tragedy"--his thing, his song. Now the prodigalgenius of the American cinema finally has the biographer hedeserves. For, as anyone who has read his novels and criticismknows, David Thomson is one of our most perceptive and splendidlyopinionated writers on film. In Rosebud, Thomson follows the wild arc ofWelles's career, from The War of the Worlds broadcast to thetriumph of Citizen Kane, the mixed triumph of The MagnificentAmbersons, and the strange and troubling movies that followed.Here, too, is the unfolding of the Welles persona--the grandgestures, the womanizing, the high living, the betrayals. Thomsoncaptures it all with a critical acumen and stylistic
James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the mostbrilliant black writer of his generation when his first book ofessays, Notes of a Native Son, established his reputation in 1955.No one was more pleased by the book’s reception than Baldwin’s highschool friend Sol Stein. A rising New York editor, novelist, andplaywright, Stein had suggested that Baldwin do the book and coaxedhis old friend through the long and sometimes agonizing process ofputting the volume together and seeing it into print. Now, in thisfascinating new book, Sol Stein documents the story of his intensecreative partnership with Baldwin through newly uncovered letters,photos, in*ions, and an illuminating memoir of the friendshipthat resulted in one of the classics of American literature.Included in this book are the two works they created together–thestory “Dark Runner” and the play Equal in Paris, both publishedhere for the first time. Though a world of difference separated them–Baldwin was black andgay, living i
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.
Every Alaskan king crab season, brothers Andy and JohnathanHillstrand risk their lives and seek their fortunes upon thetreacherous waters of the Bering Sea. Sons of a hard-bitten, highlysuccessful fisherman, and born with brine in their blood, theHillstrand boys couldn’t imagine a life without a swaying deckunderfoot and a harvest of mighty king crabs waiting to be pulledfrom the ocean floor. In pursuit of their daily catch, the brothersbrave ice floes and heaving waves sixty feet high, the perils ofthousand-pound steel traps thrown about by the punishing wind, andthe constant menace of the open, hungry water—epitomized in thechorus of a haunting sailors’ sing-along: “Many brave hearts areasleep in the deep, so beware, beware.” By turns raucous and reflective, exhilarating and anguished,enthralling, suspenseful, and wise, Time Bandit chronicles alarger-than-life love affair as old as civilization itself—a loveaffair between striving, willful man and inscrutable, enduringnature.
In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal. Translated by Randolf Hogan.
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
