The voice is all : the lonely victory of Jack Kerouac / Joyce Johnson.

Author: Johnson, Joyce, 1935-

Imprint:New York : Viking, c2012.

Descriptionxx, 489 p. 24 cm.

Note:Franco-American ghosts : The lost brother ; Jean-Louis Kerouac -- A half-American boyhood : La Salle de Mort ; A Catholic education ; Pawtucketville ; Football hero ; First love -- An uprooting : Manhattan ; The summer of Sebastian ; Columbia ; The escape -- The War : At sea ; Edie Parker -- The libertine circle : The season of Lucien ; Birth of a symbolist ; Apartment ; Benzedrine weekends ; A father's death -- Postwar : Enter Neal Cassady ; The road ; Reaching California ; Ozone Park -- "White ambitions" : The conquest of Manhattan ; The summer of visions and parties ; Enter John Clellon Holmes ; "The rudeness of being" -- "Rain and Rivers" : "Wither goest thou in thy shiny car at night?" ; A change in luck ; Continental divide ; The edge of success ; The French Canadian older brother -- The "rush of truth" : The unwritable road novel ; The girl with the innocent and pure eyes ; "The voice is all" ; The road opens up ; Deep form -- Interior music : Visions of Neal ; Tranced fixations ; Reves.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p 439-471) and index.

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