Edie Kerouac-Parker (1922–1993)
Auteur de You'll Be Okay: My Life With Jack Kerouac
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Edie Kerouac-Parker
Œuvres de Edie Kerouac-Parker
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Kerouac-Parker, Edie
- Nom légal
- Kerouac-Parker, Edith
- Date de naissance
- 1922-09-20
- Date de décès
- 1993-10-29
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Relations
- Kerouac, Jack (husband, 1944-1945)
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 51
- Popularité
- #311,767
- Évaluation
- 3.2
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 1
I did learn that Kerouac was briefly in both the Merchant Marine and the Navy during the war, and, if Edie knows what she's talking about, that he was discharged from the Navy for being "schizoid." But I suspect a real biography would tell me a lot more about this, as well as other obscure aspects of the Beat author's short life. Edie wrote this 'memoir' years after Kerouac died, apparently at the urging of others, like Kerouac's one-time drinking buddy, William Burroughs. Let me just say it was a bad idea. The woman cannot write - at all. I suspect the spelling and grammar was cleaned up by her editors, Tim Moran and Bill Morgan, who published it some years after Edie's death, probably hoping to make a buck.
A much better book is Joyce Johnson's MINOR CHARACTERS memoir of her brief time with Kerouac.
Bottom line: this is a crappy book. Don't buy it. Not even at a discount. And I have even less desire now to read any of Jack Kerouac's work. NOT recommended.
- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER… (plus d'informations)