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Book of Sketches: 1952-57 Paperback - 2006
by Kerouac, Jack (Author)/ Condo, George (Introduction by)
- New
- Paperback
Recounting Jack Kerouac's travels, observations, and meditations on art and life, this never-before-published book of poems is offered in a deluxe package featuring French flaps.
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- Title Book of Sketches: 1952-57
- Author Kerouac, Jack (Author)/ Condo, George (Introduction by)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Printing
- Condition New
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 2006
- Bookseller's Inventory # __0142002151
- ISBN 9780142002155 / 0142002151
- Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 6.1 x 4.84 x 1.17 in (15.49 x 12.29 x 2.97 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005044535
- Dewey Decimal Code 818.540
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Summary
In 1952 and 1953 as he wandered around America, Jack Kerouac jotted down spontaneous prose poems, or "sketches" as he called them, on small notebooks that he kept in his shirt pockets. The poems recount his travels—New York, North Carolina, Lowell (Massachusetts, Kerouac’s birthplace), San Francisco, Denver, Kansas, Mexico—observations, and meditations on art and life. The poems are often strung together so that over the course of several of them, a little story—or travelogue—appears, complete in itself. Published for the first time, Book of Sketches offers a luminous, intimate, and transcendental glimpse of one of the most original voices of the twentieth century at a key time in his literary and spiritual development.
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- Booklist, 03/15/2006, Page 18
- Entertainment Weekly, 04/14/2006, Page 92
- Publishers Weekly, 03/13/2006, Page 42