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Baby Driver

Baby Driver

Jan Kerouac

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ISBN: 9781681379739

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Publication Date: 11/11/25

Binding: Paperback

Age Range: -

Grade Range: NA-NA

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Language: English

BISAC: Fiction, Coming of Age, City Life, World Literature, and American - 20th Century

Related Subjects: Kerouac, Jan, Young women, Beats (Persons), and Autobiographical fiction

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The first novel by Jan Kerouac, daughter of Jack--a thrilling work of autobiographical fiction that captures with inspired detail a life driven by adventure, drugs, far-flung travel, and like her father, a relentless quest for pure experience.

"If [Jack] Kerouac sometimes put a spiritual gloss on poverty and life on the edge, his daughter offered an unflinching vision." --The Guardian

"Was it January or February? The coconut fronds waving, shining like green hair in the sun, gave no clue." Fifteen-year-old Jan is pregnant, gamely living off rice and whatever fish her boyfriend John can catch in Yelapa, Mexico. Her sojourn there-both thrilling and heartbreaking-marks the beginning of a life of restless wandering. Jan Kerouac, the only child of Jack Kerouac, first published her autobiographical novel Baby Driver in 1981. Fearless and frank, Baby Driver is the story of a difficult childhood, marked by maternal warmth and paternal disregard, and of the heady freedom and precariousness of self-reliance.

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