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Per anni Jack Kerouac ebbe l'abitudine di tenere accanto al letto, sul comodino, un taccuino e una matita. E ogni mattina, appena sveglio, registrava tutto quanto poteva ricordare dei sogni fatti durante la notte. Da quegli appunti trasse poi questa sorta di "autobiografia parallela" filtrata attraverso l'attività onirica, pubblicata da Lawrence Ferlinghetti nel 1961 in un'edizione ridotta e qui proposta per la prima volta nella versione integrale. Nei sogni qui narrati compaiono molti dei personaggi dei racconti dell'autore di On the Road, riconoscibili grazie alla tabella delle corrispondenze suggerita dallo stesso Kerouac. Insolito e originale, Il libro dei sogni è un'opera illuminata da una scrittura spontanea e affascinante, una finestra aperta sul mondo interiore di un grande scrittore.

Beautifully rejacketed, Doctor Sax is one of Kerouac’s best books – a vivid, nostalgic tale of one boy’s extraordinary childhood. Of all his books, Doctor Sax was the one Jack Kerouac loved the most. He began writing it in 1948, but wrote the greater part of it in 1952, when he was staying in Mexico with William Burroughs. Told through the character of Kerouac’s fictional alter ego, Jack Duluoz, the novel tells the story of his extraordinary childhood in Massachusetts. A clever and rebellious boy, playing among the river weeds and railroad tracks, going to the movies, reading pulp comics and watching cartoons, Jack creates an imaginary world of strange, new possibilities. Within this world lies the weird and wonderful Doctor Sax…

In these uncollected writings Jack Kerouac portrays himself in his life. He hitches a ride to San Francisco with a blonde, goes on the road with photographer Robert Frank, rides bus through the Northwest and Montana, records the blues of an old Negro hobo, talks about the Beats and how it all began, gives his "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" and defends his novel The Subterraneans, compares Shakespeare and James Joyce, describes the cafeterias and subways of Manhattan, goes to a ballgame and a prize fight, and reflects on Céline, on Christmas in New England, on Murnau's Nosferatu, on jazz & bop, and tells us what he's thinking about. And in the closing piece "cityCityCITY," we're treated to Jack's science fiction vision of the future."Table of Contents Robert Creeley: Thinking of Jack: A Preface On the Road On the Beats On Writing Observations On Sports Last Words cityCityCITY Editor's Note

A sus dieciséis años, Ever ha experimentado en sus carnes el mayor dolor: sus padres y su hermana han muerto en un accidente de tráfico al que solo ella ha sobrevivido. Una desgracia cuyas consecuencias serán desconcertantes, pues desde entonces, Ever posee una serie de habilidades paranormales. La llegada del enigmático Damen Auguste a su instituto no hará sino complicarlo todo aún más, y le revelará una verdad que le resultará muy difícil de explicar.

"Both a masterpiece about the universal human condition and a masterpiece of Native American literature. . . . A book everyone should read for the joy and emotion of the language it contains." -- Paris Review The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about a stranger in his native land from renowned Kiowa writer and poet N. Scott Momaday, now available as a limited Olive Edition from Harper Perennial. A young Native American, Abel has come home from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world--modern, industrial America--pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, trying to claim his soul, and goading him into a destructive, compulsive cycle of depravity and disgust. An American classic, House Made of Dawn is at once a tragic tale about the disabling effects of war and cultural separation, and a hopeful story of a stranger in his native land, finding his way back to all that is familiar and sacred.

Beautiful stories from the new and old worlds, infused with autobiographical elements. "Everything can become a passion," states the title story, and the protagonists of Isaac B. Singer provide ample evidence of this. This collection gathers tales of Jewish destinies in both the new and old worlds, focusing on individuals filled with fears and hopes. The Dibbuk often plays a crucial role, predominantly possessing female characters and transforming them into the obsessed. "The longer I live among them [the Jews of Eastern Europe] and write about them, the greater my astonishment at the diversity of their personalities and, as I am one of them, at my own whims and passions. And while I hope for their redemption and resurrection, I dare to say that for me all these people are still alive. In literature, as in our dreams, there is no death." Isaac B. Singer

Laura Middlebrooková žije do svých pětadvaceti let až příliš poklidně. Náhle se dozvídá, že brzy zemře. Rozhodne se, a donutí pohledného a divokého detektiva Seana Wildera, aby se s ní oženil a ukázal jí nevázaný pařížský noční život.

Twenty years have passed for Asher Lev. He is a world-renowned artist living in France, still uncertain of his artistic direction. When his beloved uncle dies suddenly, Asher and his family rush back to Brooklyn--and into a world that Asher thought he had left behind forever....

Una recreación ficticia de la vida de Geronimo, el último gran guerrero de la nación apache, y su lucha contra los colonos blancos para mantener la tierra y el modo de vida de su tribu.