Rare, numbered, limited edition.
Length: 13 pages.
- The booklet contains no images. Photographs shown here are of the Rustic Cabins in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan.
REVIEW
This numbered, limited-edition chapbook about Jack Kerouac’s time in Detroit is a collector’s gem. Cohassey manages to pack into 13 pages the concise details of Jack Kerouac’s life while he lived with his first wife, Detroit-born Frankie Edie Parker, first in New York and later in Grosse Pointe Park. He presents fascinating information, including how Kerouac worked in a Detroit factory but also sailed with Edie on a family-owned yacht on Lake St. Clair. Cohassey reveals Kerouac’s aversion to the country-club airs of Edie’s family and his eventual breakup with Edie, but he also conveys Kerouac’s expressions of longing for Edie and describes several returns to Detroit to visit her, including one last visit with his famous partner in bohemian mischief, Neal Cassady. A fascinating read in a hand-bound treasure printed by Salt & Cedar Letterpress.
----Christine Blackwell, writer, editor, and former editorial director for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt