Desolate Angel av Dennis McNally

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<B>"A blockbuster of a biography . . . absolutely magnificent."--<I>San Francisco Chronicle</I></B><br><DIV><br></DIV><DIV>Jack Kerouac--"King of the Beats," unwitting catalyst for the ''60s counterculture, groundbreaking author--was a complex and compelling man: a star athlete with a literary bent; a spontaneous writer vilified by the New Critics but adored by a large, youthful readership; a devout Catholic but aspiring Buddhist; a lover of freedom plagued by crippling alcoholism.<I><br></I></DIV><DIV><I><br></I></DIV><DIV><I>Desolate Angel</I> follows Kerouac from his childhood in the mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, to his early years at Columbia where he met Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady, beginning a four-way friendship that would become a sociointellectual legend. In rich detail and with sensitivity, Dennis McNally recounts Kerouac''s frenetic cross-country journeys, his experiments with drugs and sexuality, his travels to Mexico and Tangier, the sudden