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Jack's Boys

Michael Ramberg

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Description:Jack LaFleur was a self-destructive, Kerouac-style wanderer, a secret poet and, according to his own legend, a bit character in Kerouac’s last great novel, Big Sur. At the end of the Sixties, Jack married Carrie Anderson and attempted to settle down in the American suburbs to raise a family. But at best he could achieve only an uneasy truce with the land of shopping malls and frontage roads, and he died years later a bitter and frustrated alcoholic.Three years after his death, as Jack’s Boys opens, he continues to be a towering presence in the lives of his surviving family members. Matt, the oldest child and narrator, is a shy copy editor whose romantic notions of women doom all his relationships before they start. The youngest, Theo, is a brilliant, media obsessed high school student who may or may not be following in his father’s self-destructive ways.When Theo LaFleur impulsively hitchhikes across the country to visit the grandfather he’s never met, he discovers a secret Jack never revealed to his family: Jack was a poet whose work was thought destroyed, but is now a valuable commodity in a mini-renaissance of Beat poetry.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jack's Boys. To get started finding Jack's Boys, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 300

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

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Release: 2012

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Description: Jack LaFleur was a self-destructive, Kerouac-style wanderer, a secret poet and, according to his own legend, a bit character in Kerouac’s last great novel, Big Sur. At the end of the Sixties, Jack married Carrie Anderson and attempted to settle down in the American suburbs to raise a family. But at best he could achieve only an uneasy truce with the land of shopping malls and frontage roads, and he died years later a bitter and frustrated alcoholic.Three years after his death, as Jack’s Boys opens, he continues to be a towering presence in the lives of his surviving family members. Matt, the oldest child and narrator, is a shy copy editor whose romantic notions of women doom all his relationships before they start. The youngest, Theo, is a brilliant, media obsessed high school student who may or may not be following in his father’s self-destructive ways.When Theo LaFleur impulsively hitchhikes across the country to visit the grandfather he’s never met, he discovers a secret Jack never revealed to his family: Jack was a poet whose work was thought destroyed, but is now a valuable commodity in a mini-renaissance of Beat poetry.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jack's Boys. To get started finding Jack's Boys, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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