The Resource Looking for Jack Kerouac : a novel, Barbara Shoup
Looking for Jack Kerouac : a novel, Barbara Shoup
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Resource Information
The item Looking for Jack Kerouac : a novel, Barbara Shoup represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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- Summary
- "In 1964, Paul Carpetti discovers Jack Kerouac's On the Road while on a school trip to New York and begins to question the life he faces after high school. Then he meets a volatile, charismatic Kerouac devotee determined to hit the road himself. When the boys learn that Kerouac is living in St. Petersburg, Florida, they go looking for answers."--[page 4]Cover
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 196 pages
- Isbn
- 9781938126475
- Label
- Looking for Jack Kerouac : a novel
- Title
- Looking for Jack Kerouac
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Barbara Shoup
- Subject
-
- trueKerouac, Jack, 1922-1969, On the road
- Young adult fiction
- trueTeenage boys
- trueSteel mills
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueSelf-discovery in teenage boys
- Authors -- Indiana
- Bildungsromans
- trueComing-of-age stories
- Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969 -- Fiction
- trueHitchhiking
- trueSelf-discovery
- Young men -- Fiction
- trueDating (Social customs)
- true1960s -- 1960 -- 1969
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In 1964, Paul Carpetti discovers Jack Kerouac's On the Road while on a school trip to New York and begins to question the life he faces after high school. Then he meets a volatile, charismatic Kerouac devotee determined to hit the road himself. When the boys learn that Kerouac is living in St. Petersburg, Florida, they go looking for answers."--[page 4]Cover
- Summary
- Inspired by Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," Paul Carpetti, who is disillusioned with his life in 1964 suburbia, and fellow Kerouac enthusiast Duke Walczek begin hitchhiking to Florida to find their literary hero
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10355369
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel
-
- 10
- 12
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Target audience
- adolescent
- Label
- Looking for Jack Kerouac : a novel, Barbara Shoup
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 20265160
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 196 pages
- Isbn
- 9781938126475
- Isbn Type
- (print : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2014944273
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)859187642
- Label
- Looking for Jack Kerouac : a novel, Barbara Shoup
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 20265160
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 196 pages
- Isbn
- 9781938126475
- Isbn Type
- (print : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2014944273
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)859187642
Subject
- true1960s -- 1960 -- 1969
- Authors -- Indiana
- Bildungsromans
- trueComing-of-age stories
- trueDating (Social customs)
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHitchhiking
- Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969 -- Fiction
- trueKerouac, Jack, 1922-1969, On the road
- trueSelf-discovery
- trueSelf-discovery in teenage boys
- trueSteel mills
- trueTeenage boys
- Young adult fiction
- Young men -- Fiction
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