[Item #5230] Baby Driver. Jan Kerouac.
Baby Driver
Baby Driver
Baby Driver
Baby Driver
Baby Driver

Baby Driver

ISBN: 0312063768
New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. "Jack Kerouac gave birth to a whole generation of young people, kids who left the safety of suburbia for the harder truths of the road. Thousands went searching and the beatniks of the jazzy fifties gave way to the hippies of the psychedelic sixties, a generation lost on the American highway. But one person inherited Jack's legacy like no other in the world, chasing the dream until it shattered: his own daughter." (from front flap) The first of two autobiographical novels by Jan Kerouac (1952-1996), the doomed daughter of Jack Kerouac, Founding Father of the Beat Generation, & his second wife, Joan Haverty Kerouac. Jan had her own rather riveting style, but also inherited her father's powers of observation & evocation on the page, as well as an uncanny physical resemblance. This writer saw & heard Jan in person reading from her works at the legendary Beat Conference at NYU during 1994, an unforgettable & haunting experience. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, first edition as stated on copyright page, first printing as indicated by number sequence thereon. A premiere rarity by the tragic offspring of the tragic hero of the Beat Generation. See also our item No.s 4782 (Jan's Trainsong) & 4179 (Haverty's memoir). Book in very fine condition with only a touch of wear & a few tiny bumps at edges & corners of front, back covers & spine; mild spotting at side & lower edges of text block; more pronounced at upper edge of same. Interior very fine, substantially mint. Dust jacket very fine with only a touch of rubbing, faint scratching to front, back covers & spine; very light wear & some tiny bumps, creases at thin edges & corners of same esp. upper spine-edge, corners; mild browning, mostly at margins/edges, of flaps. Very Fine / Very Fine. [Item #5230]

Price: $60.00