All Day Looking For His Hat ...: Essays on Jack Kerouac and other Stories

Jack Kerouac 1922-1969. On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Doctor Sax, Maggie Cassidy, Visions of Cody, Desolation Angels, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa, Mexico City Blues, The Town and the City, Vanity of Duluoz and many more. Coming from the notebooks, the burning typewriter, the racing imagination of Jack Kerouac, who described himself as a '... strange, solitary, catholic mystic ...' - he was celebrated, then destroyed by fame, neglected in the years that followed and then rediscovered. We are still discovering who he is today.