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Name: Subterranean Kerouac
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Ellis Amburn

Drawing on original interviews, Kerouac’s letters, and unpublished journals from the Kerouac archives, Ellis Amburn presents a biography that uncovers an inner Kerouac unseen in earlier works. As editor of Kerouac’s final two novels, Amburn knew the author personally and witnessed his decline into alcoholic despair in his last years. Amburn also addresses an often overlooked aspect of Kerouac’s life: his sexual relationships with men. Through Kerouac’s own confessions, Amburn offers new insight into the profound impact of these experiences on the writer, a man who maintained until his death that he was not bisexual and that homosexuality was immoral.

First publish date: 1998

Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography

Authors: Ellis Amburn

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