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Beschreibung

This book explores the life and authorial development of Jack Kerouac through previously unpublished papers, letters, and other literary artifacts.

In Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac, Jacob Loewentheil tells the father of the Beat generation's story through letters, several unpublished manuscripts, notable copies of Kerouac's major works, literary artifacts, and personal items. These physical objects convey quirks, habits, and intimate facets of Kerouac's character, showing the writer in the making. His early letters, many previously unpublished and from Loewentheil's own collection, shed light on his emerging and highly influential stream of consciousness style. Running Through Heaven testifies to the richness of Kerouac's writing, his lifelong love of education, his complex relationship with religion, the tensions and contradictions in his sexuality, his influence on other writers, his turn toward conservatism, and his pivotal relationship with his mother. To fixate on the continuing popularity of On the Road is to miss Kerouac's legacy, which extends far beyond literary circles.

This book explores the life and authorial development of Jack Kerouac through previously unpublished papers, letters, and other literary artifacts.

In Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac, Jacob Loewentheil tells the father of the Beat generation's story through letters, several unpublished manuscripts, notable copies of Kerouac's major works, literary artifacts, and personal items. These physical objects convey quirks, habits, and intimate facets of Kerouac's character, showing the writer in the making. His early letters, many previously unpublished and from Loewentheil's own collection, shed light on his emerging and highly influential stream of consciousness style. Running Through Heaven testifies to the richness of Kerouac's writing, his lifelong love of education, his complex relationship with religion, the tensions and contradictions in his sexuality, his influence on other writers, his turn toward conservatism, and his pivotal relationship with his mother. To fixate on the continuing popularity of On the Road is to miss Kerouac's legacy, which extends far beyond literary circles.
Über den Autor
Jacob Loewentheil is an antiquarian and photography expert, as well as the curator of the Marcel Sternberger Collection. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and graduated from Cornell University with a degree in psychology. Long fascinated by other cultures, he has traveled much of the world, including a year spent circumnavigating the globe. His travels have also taken him across much of the American landscape, from the deserts of New Mexico to deep in the Florida Everglades and Alaska's far eastern mountain ranges.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781605831251
ISBN-10: 1605831255
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Loewentheil, Jacob
Hersteller: Grolier Club of New York
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Jacob Loewentheil
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.09.2026
Gewicht: 0,68 kg
Artikel-ID: 136018079