Understanding Jack Kerouac

Chronology

Biography and background

Kerouac's technique

The town and the city (1950)

On the road (1957)

Visions of Cody (1972)

Doctor Sax: Faust part three (1959)

Maggie Cassidy (1959) and The subterraneans (1958)

Tristessa (1960), Visions of Gerard, (1963) and Buddhism

Desolation angels (1965) and the Dharma bums (1958)

Big sur (1962)

Later work

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index.