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Nobody's Wife: The Smart Aleck and the King of the Beats

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Nobody's Wife: The Smart Aleck and the King of the Beats - Kerouac, Joan Harverty, and Kerouac, Jan (Introduction by)
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It was 1950. Strikingly beautiful, 20-year-old Joan Haverty had arrived in New York and was working as a seamstress. During a deteriorating attempt to reconcile with her lover, fate intervened when Joan heard a stranger's voice calling up to her loft from the street below -- It was Jack Kerouac, needing directions to a party Thus began Joan's stormy romance with and brief marriage to the leather-jacketed archangel of the Beat Generation. She bore his tirades, his passion, his troubled poetic genius, and also bore his child ...

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Nobody's Wife: The Smart Aleck and the King of the Beats 2000, Creative Arts Book Company, Berkeley, CA

ISBN-13: 9780887393686

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