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Jack Kerouac's Avatar Angel: His Last Novel ReviewI am glad that I saved this book for summer night reading. This isn't some Beat nostalgia trip by a Kerouac wannabe. It's much better than that.
Here we have the ghost of Jack Kerouac involuntarily returned to earth. He didn't want to come back, but like life and death, it just happened. Also, like life, he has no idea why he has returned. He just awakened into renewed existance, 13 years after his death, looking physically thirteen years older, with a vague memory of having been somewhere else- maybe Mexico.
Kerouac is drawn back to the people who were linked to him in life. It isn't that he has any unfinished business with them, it is almost like a gravitational attraction. He is drawn to those people, and places where his influence lingers. It just so happens that most of the old friends and acquantances that he meets come across as pretty unsympathetic. Because they live so much in past memories they do not recognise him- or believe him, when he tells them who he is. He is just a crazy old bum. That is, except for Gary Snyder, and possibly Gregory Corso. So Kerouac wanders through 80's America becoming increasingly disillusioned by what his friends, and the country, has become. Yet, all through his travels, a mysterious Indian/ trainman/ biker/ sage keeps reappearing with just the right observations and comments....
Oh yes, the author even puts in a bowling ball-pumping cameo. He comes across as an angel. I guess when you write the book, then you get to be an angel if you want to be....Jack Kerouac's Avatar Angel: His Last Novel OverviewIn his latest novel, Chuck Rosenthal brings Jack Kerouacback from the dead, creating a posthumous novel in the voice of thelegendary beat novelist.On the road again, Kerouac is back todeliver the message of death's existential loneliness, only made worseby what he finds on his return to compare it to.Rosenthal carriesoff the ambitious task, writing great lyrical passages, full of wordplay, neologism, compression, scatting, and riffs. He never forgetsthat Kerouac the free spirit was also Kerouac the writer.

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