Bibliograph

Visions of Cody, Jack Kerouac ; introduction by Allan Ginsberg

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Visions of Cody, Jack Kerouac ; introduction by Allan Ginsberg

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Visions of Cody

Responsibility statement

Jack Kerouac ; introduction by Allan Ginsberg

Summary

An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, "Visions of Cody" is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays. Transcribing taped conversations between members of their group as they took drugs and drank, this book reveals an intimate portrait of people caught up in destructive relationships with substances, and one another. Always fixated by Neal Cassady - the Cody of the title, renamed for the book along with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs - Kerouac also explores the feelings he had for a man who would inspire much of his work

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