cover image Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha

Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha

Jack Kerouac. Viking Books, $24.95 (146pp) ISBN 978-0-670-01957-1

Kerouac, Jack. Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha. Viking. Sept. 2008. 146p. REL~Though raised a devout Catholic, Kerouac became entranced by Buddhism after discovering Dwight Goddard's A Buddhist Bible in a public library. This offers for the first time in book form Jack's take on the Buddha's life and principle teachings.--Mike Rogers, LJ/LJX.