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The life and craft of Jack Kerouac are traced through some of his most personal and mesmerizing letters. Written between 1940, when he was a freshman in college, and 1956, immediately before his leap into celebrity with the publication of On the Road, these letters offer valuable insights into Kerouac's family life, friendships with Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, and others.
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It was in his letters that Jack Kerouac set down the raw material that he transmuted into his novels, exploring and refining the spontaneous prose style that became his trademark. The letters in this volume, written between 1940, when Kerouac was a freshman at college, and 1956, immediately before his breathless leap into celebrity with the publication of On the Road, offer invaluable insights into Kerouac's family life, his friendships with Neal and Carolyn Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and William S. Burroughs, his travels, love affairs, and literary apprenticeship. At once fascinating reading and a major addition to Kerouac scholarship, here is a rare portrait of the writer as a young adventurer of immense talent, energy, and ambition in the midst of writing and living an American legend.
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- Title Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, Vol. 1, 1940-1956
- Author Kerouac, Jack
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- Pages 656
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- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date 3/1/1996 12:00:01 AM
- Bookseller's Inventory # mon0001026775
- ISBN 9780140234442 / 0140234446
- Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 8.11 x 4.86 x 1.43 in (20.60 x 12.34 x 3.63 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Beat generation, Authors, American - 20th century -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94012911
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- New York Times, 03/24/1996, Page 28
- Publishers Weekly, 01/15/1996, Page 0
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