One and Only: The Untold Story of on the Road and Lu Anne Henderson, the Woman Who Started Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady on Their Journey - Rilegato

Nicosia, Gerald; Santos, Anne Marie

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ISBN 10: 1936740044 ISBN 13: 9781936740048

Casa editrice: Viva Editions, 2011

Riassunto

Lu Anne Henderson was a beautiful 15-year-old girl in Denver in 1945 when she met Neal, a fast-talking hurricane of male sexuality and vast promises. The two married, and soon they were hanging out with a group of would-be writers, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Lu Anne became the secret link between Kerouac and Cassady, helping to ignite the Beat Generation, and giving Kerouac material for one of the seminal novels of the 20th century,On the Road.

Lu Anne Henderson did not live to see the filming of On the Road by Walter Salles, butOne and Only tells how Twilight’s Kristen Stewart, through her work with both Nicosia and Anne Marie Santos (Lu Anne's daughter), came to find the key to playing Lu Anne in the film.

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"The transcription of the tapes that we listened to is now a book. Gerry Nicosia put it together and Anne Marie Santos also wrote a little bit in the end. It's called "One and Only" and it is "so" important. ... the book is absolutely amazing."--Kristen Stewart on Gerry Nicosia and "One and Only"
"Celebrated author and Kerouac biographer Gerald Nicosia is the white knight of Beat scholarship, rescuing another damsel from the distress of obscurity, marginalization and an undeserved bad reputation. In his new book he illuminates the life and central importance of Lu Anne Henderson, Mary Lou of On the Road, Neal Cassady's first wife, who largely narrates the book; Nicosia's encyclopedic knowledge and rigorous documentation have enabled him to present what was just a box of cassette tapes as a riveting narrative with much of the drive and most of the action of "On the Road," only with actual names and events."
--Evergreen Review
""One and Only: The Untold Story of On the Road" brings together a set of interviews conducted by the Bay Area writer Gerald Nicosia with Lu Anne over a period of years before her death in 2008. Her oral history of the early Beats is interlaced with reflections on the major players of the age (Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, most notably), together with further reflections by Lu Anne's daughter; Anne Marie Santos. It provides the Beat aficionado with new information about the private lives of well-known personae."
--"San Francisco Chronicle"
"I think it's a beautifully conceived, edited, and written book, and I'm convinced it is the most important addition to Beat scholarship since Nicosia's "Memory Babe.""
--The Beatnik
"In many ways, it is more sobering than most volumes on Beat history. One telling incident is hopelessness concealed in the question Neal asked Lu Anne, when he finally went quiet and quit acting, "Where do we go from here, Babe?""
--Beatdom
"By the time I reached the last page of her a

L'autore:

Gerald Nicosia is a biographer, historian, poet, playwright and novelist. His biography of Jack Kerouac,Memory Babe, won the Distinguished Young Writer Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters while still a work-in-progress. Called a great book” by Allen Ginsberg and by far the best of the many books published about Jack Kerouac’s life and work” by William Burroughs, it is still widely regarded as the definitive work on Kerouac. From his years of work with Vietnam veterans on their issues of healing from the war came his bookHome to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement, which won numerous honors and was picked by theLos Angeles Times as one of the Best Books of the Year” in 2001.

He has written numerous critical articles and reviews for almost every major newspaper in the U.S., and he publishes his poetry widely in the small presses, having earned a number of Pushcart nominations along the way. He has read his own work and organized readings on several continents, and has lectured on the Beats, Vietnam and the Sixties literally worldwide, at such venues as Columbia University in New York, Cambridge University in England, the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea, Wales, the Commune in Livorno, Italy and Sichuan University in Chengdu, China. Nicosia was invited by Director Walter Salles to pioneer the "Beat Boot Camp," creating an immersion experience for the actors in the upcoming major movie ofOn the Road.

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• Editore: Viva Editions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1936740044
• ISBN 13: 9781936740048
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 244