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Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac

by Ellis Amburn

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Drawing on interviews and his own relationship with Kerouac Amburn has revealed an inner Kerouac who has not appeared in previous biographies, a man torn by his conflicting beliefs and desires. Kerouac always struggled with poverty, his drinking and doubts about his lifestyle, remaining convinced until his death that his homosexuality was immoral.… (more)
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I was torn between Carolyn and Neal, and I married Stella because she's Sammy's sister. Figure that out and you've got the secret to my life and work.

-- Jack Kerouac to the author, 1967
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To the memory of

F. W. Dupee

and

Lionel Trilling

my Columbia mentors

who set me on my life's course
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Jack Kerouac's childhood and adolescence were lived at a pitch of romantic intensity and fulfillment rarely equaled in his adulthood, when he became tormented, and often paralyzed, by conflicting sexual passions.
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Drawing on interviews and his own relationship with Kerouac Amburn has revealed an inner Kerouac who has not appeared in previous biographies, a man torn by his conflicting beliefs and desires. Kerouac always struggled with poverty, his drinking and doubts about his lifestyle, remaining convinced until his death that his homosexuality was immoral.

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