Harcourt Brace. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Heavy rubbing, light toning, fraying, bumps, a few small stains, tape ghosts on the front endpapers. Photo on request. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

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In his first novel, The Town and the City , Kerouac draws on his experience in a New England quiet mill-working town to create the very standard American world of George and Marguerite Martin and their children. More accessible than Kerouac's later, more free-form verse, this novel follows in detail the life and growth of three of the Martin brothers as they move up and out of their home and into broader America. "When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices of everybody he had known, were crying: "Peter, Peter! Where are you going, Peter?" And a big soft gust of rain came down. He put up the collar of his jacket, and bowed his head, and hurried along."

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Bookseller: Boards and Wraps (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 86451
Title: The Town and the City
Author: Kerouac, Jack
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Date Published: 1950

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