Description:
[book 1.] Girls, visions, everything : the education of Sal Paradise -- Growing up Kerouac -- The parable of the wet hitchhiker -- What would Jack do? -- [book 2.] Paradise among the Dingledodies : the parables of men -- The mad ones -- Sal's guide to work and money -- The book of lost fathers -- [book 3.] The true story of the world is a French movie : the parables of love and sex -- How not to pick up girls -- The family guy -- [book 4.] We don't go skating like the Scott Fitzgeralds : the parables of jazz -- The Tao of Orooni-- We know time -- [book 5.] Visions of Sal : the book of revelations -- The holy goofs -- Ghosts -- Visions -- The aftermath : success and its discontents -- Sad Paradise and the lessons unlearned