Kerouac on film
KEROUAC, Jack. Pull My Daisy. NY: Grove Press, Inc. 1959.
Slim 8vo. Original printed wraps with photo by Robert Frank; pp. 38, [xxxiv]; with 31 pages of black and white photographs, including of Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg; covers and spine have the odd mark, interior is fine and unmarked.
First edition, first printing.
Pull my Daisy is the film adapted from the third act of Kerouac's play, Beat Generation, in which he provides the improvised narration. Based on a true event in Neal Cassady's life, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman's wife, who invites a bishop to dinner. When the brakeman and his friends arrive home early, chaos ensues.
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