Baby Driver 9781915368416 Paperback

Introduction by Amanda FortiniOutsider Classics is Dead Ink’s resurrection ground for the strange, the silenced,and the outcast. This series exhumes lost literary voices that were ahead of theirtime to restore them to the cult status they always deserved. From forgottenmasterpieces to once-censored provocations, each title is a reaction against thecanon curated for readers who want to stray into the margins and away from themainstream.”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 offrice and whatever fish her boyfriend John can catch in Yelapa, Mexico. She andJohn, who introduced her to Beckett, Kafka, Joyce, and Dostoevsky, are writing anovel together. Before she can leave for Guadalajara where she plans to deliverher baby, she goes into labor three months early, and the baby is stillborn. Sheturns sixteen soon after and decides to head north.Jan Kerouac, the only child of Jack Kerouac and Joan Haverty Kerouac,published her autobiographical novelBaby Driverin 1981. Unacknowledged byher father, she is haunted by the absence of his love. With a graceful, sometimesdisturbing detachment and intense lyricism, she explores the freewheeling soulof a woman on her own road.From an adolescence on the Lower East Side of Manhattan dropping LSD anddoing time in detention homes, to the peace movement in Haight-Ashbury andWashington state, to traveling by bus through Central America with a madmanfor a lover, Jan lives by her wits and whims, rhapsodic and irrepressible.