LAWRENCE LEE

Este libro narra la fascinante vida del padre de la generación beat a través de las voces de sus amigos y amantes. Barry Gifford y Lawrence Lee reconstruyen la vida de Kerouac en casa y en el camino y hablan con los profetas, músicos y poetas que le conocieron. Algunos son famosos (Allen Ginsberg, Gore Vidal, William Burroughs y Gary Snyder, entre otros), otros no (los amigos de la infancia de Jack, sus amantes o sus colegas). Todos esbozan un retrato vibrante y sobrecogedor de la vida de Kerouac.Leer este libro es estar presente en las reuniones de Kerouac con sus amigos, amantes e, incluso, enemigos. Es una larga conversación sobre la generación beat. El libro de Jack, al igual que las novelas de Kerouac, nos ofrece una ayuda valiosísima para comprender a un hombre y una generación que dieron forma a los sueños y esperanzas de sus seguidores.

On 28th September 1985, Lee Lawrence's mother Cherry Groce was wrongly shot by police during a raid on her Brixton home. The bullet shattered her spine and she never walked again. In the chaos that followed, 11-year-old Lee watched in horror as the News falsely pronounced his mother dead. In Brixton, already a powder keg because of the deep racism that the community was experiencing, it was the spark needed to trigger two days of rioting that saw buildings brought down by petrol bombs, cars torched and shops looted.But for Lee, it was a spark that lit a flame that would burn for the next 30 years as he fought to get the police to recognise their wrongdoing. His life had changed forever: he was now his mother's carer, he had seen first-hand the prejudice that existed in his country, and he was at the mercy of a society that was working against him. And yet that flame - for justice, for peace, for change - kept him going.The Louder I Will Sing is a powerful, compelling and uplifting memoir about growing up in modern Britain as a young Black man. It's a story both of people and politics, of the underlying racism beneath many of our most important institutions, but also the positive power that hope, faith and love can bring in response.