Wake Up A Life of the Buddha

<b>Jack Kerouac's profound meditations on the Buddha's life and religion<br><br></b>In the mid-1950s, Jack Kerouac, a lifelong Catholic, became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that had a significant impact on his ideas of spirituality and later found expression in such books as <i>Mexico City Blues</i> and <i>The Dharma Bums</i>. Originally written in 1955 and now published for the first time in paperback, <i>Wake Up</i> is Kerouac?s retelling of the life of Prince Siddhartha Gotama, who as a young man abandoned his wealthy family and comfortable home for a lifelong search for enlightenment. Distilled from a wide variety of canonical scriptures, <i>Wake Up</i> serves as both a penetrating account of the Buddha?s life and a concise primer on the principal teachings of Buddhism.