Barry Gifford's first full-length novel is an unusual, captivating exploration into the life of a single man. Written in the form used by the classic Japanese writer Sei Shonagon in her Pillow Book - short, essayistic stories or tales woven around a central moral - this landscape is the self-portrait of a man, who, often swept away by passion in his youth, approaches his later years with increasing distance and an almost Zen-like tranquility.

Landscape with Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves

Literature & Fiction

Gifford,Barry

Contemporary

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

This life of the late popular writer, following his career from his first success to his death, details Saroyan's rise and fall and notes the place in his life of ambition, anti-Semitism and compulsive gambling

Saroyan: A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Lee, Lawrence

Arts & Literature

Harpercollins

Here, in the voices of his friends and lovers, is the fascinating story of Jack Kerouac, "King of the Beats." Jack's Book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of a man and a generation which shaped the dreams and visions of our own.

Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac

Penguin??Books

"A fascinating literary and historical document, the most insightful look at the Beat Generation." —Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties and Going All the Way
First published in 1978, Jack's Book gives us an intimate look into the life and times of the "King of the Beats." Through the words of the close friends, lovers, artists, and drinking buddies who survived him, writers Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee recount Jack Kerouac's story, from his childhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, to his tragic end in Florida at the age of forty-seven. Including anecdotes from an eclectic list of well-known figures such as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gore Vidal, as well as Kerouac's ordinary acquaintances, this groundbreaking oral biography—the first of its kind—presents us with a remarkably insightful portrait of an American legend and the spirit of a generation.

Penguin Publishing Group

Joining a group of religious fundamentalists in order to escape the harsh realities of street life, Baby Cat-Face struggles with love and extraterrestrial encounters in the midst of several out-of-this-world characters. By the author of WIld at Heart. Tour.

Baby Cat-Face: A Novel

Harcourt

A complex, harrowing story follows Ava, a Mexican prostitute with ambition, who convinces a client to help her murder a rich rancher, disappears with the loot, and then turns up as a major player in a revolutionary band's camp.

The Sinaloa Story

United States

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

The author explores the many-sided legacy of his father, a man well-known in his Chicago community as the owner of an all-night liquor and drugstore next to a popular nightclub and as a reputed gangster. By the author of Baby Cat-Face.

The Phantom Father: A Memoir

Regional U.S.

Harcourt, Brace, & Company

From the author of Wild at Heart, a “wild, wacky, funny, well-written, and surreal” novel (Kansas City Star) about a woman struggling to make her way in “a New Orleans so feverishly peculiar that Anne Rice would feel at ease there” (Washington Post).

Baby Cat-Face: A Novel (Harvest American Writing)

Genre Fiction

Harvest Books

The reminiscences and revelations of the American writer's colleagues, acquaintances, boyhood friends, and lovers, illuminating his life, works, and the spirit of mid-century America, are bound together by commentary

St Martins Pr

Here, in what has become a classic of its kind since its publication in 1978, is the fascinating story of an American literary legend, recorded through the voices of the friends and lovers of Jack Kerouac, "King of the Beats." Authors Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee retraced Keoruac's life at home and on the road, and talked with the prophets, musicians, poets, socialites, and working people who knew Jack Kerouac. Some are famous (Allen Ginsberg, Gore Vidal, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, among others), some are not (Jack's boyhood buddies, his lovers, his barroom companions). All have contributed to a remarkably vibrant, riveting portrait of a life. We see Jack at Columbia University and on the scene of Greenwich Village; speeding across the tarmac of America with Neal Cassidy ("Dan Moriarty" in Keorac's classic novel, On the Road); at home with his possessive mother; in California, drinking wine and talking Buddhism; and finally, in Florida, where his life ends tragically at age forty-seven. Jack's Book, like Kerouac's novels, makes a unique contribution to our understanding of a man and a generation that shaped the dreams and visions of those who followed.

Jack's Book: An Oral Biography Of Jack Kerouac

St. Martin's: Griffin

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Landscape with Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves

Saroyan: A Biography

Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac

Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac

Baby Cat-Face: A Novel

The Sinaloa Story

The Phantom Father: A Memoir

Baby Cat-Face: A Novel (Harvest American Writing)

Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac

Jack's Book: An Oral Biography Of Jack Kerouac