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The Strange Case Of The Jack Kerouac Estate
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November 27, 2007 |
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Jack Kerouac is known in the popular imagination as the harbinger of the Beat movement - a free-wheeling spirit who 'hit the road' in search of a good time and the meaning of life and in the process developed a blazing new literary style. When he died in 1969, Kerouac left an estate valued at ninety-one dollars.
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The Scroll Of Jack Kerouac
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November 27, 2007 |
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And the next item up for bid, ladies and gentleman, is sale # 9652- Lot 307." This is a common introduction heard on a regular basis at the world famous Christie's Auction House when they are about to auction off one of the many items up for bid. James Christie founded Christie's International Auction House in December of 1766.
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Jack Kerouac And The Satori Highway
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November 27, 2007 |
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In 1957, Jack Kerouac, a French Canadian kid from the mill-town of Lowell, Massachusetts, published his second novel, On the Road, and became an instant celebrity. The book would become a stone thrown into a cultural lake whose ripple would grow to Tsunami proportions and wash across the American landscape. Forty years after its publication, in the summer of 1997, my buddy Dave Robinson and I packed up all we knew of life in the back of a black Ford Bronco and left our hometown for the west destiny highway.
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