Deakin, Richard (Kerouac, Jack, Cassady, Neal)

Jack and Neal: Angels Still Falling

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 1997. First edition. Softcover. The Story of Kerouac & Cassady The text of an acclaimed play, which addresses "the gulf between Kerouac and the sixties generation he called into being....as Jack, burnt out, dreams his life....taking us on a journey over twenty seminal years 1947-1968, encountering a host of formative Beat characters on the way, this is the epic tale of "Ishmael and Ahab, Tom and Huck, the story of Jack and Neal in America."" (back cover) Working backward from his last days as a bitter alcoholic wreck, the play recovers the genesis of the Beat Generation through the iconic odyssey of Jack & Neal. In as new, unread condition. As New [Item #1458]