Windblown World : The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954 Hardcover - 2004
by Kerouac, Jack
- Used
Jack Kerouac is best known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels. Yet it is only his prolific journals, in which he set down the raw material of his life and thinking, that reveal to us the real Kerouac his true, honest, deep, private, philosophical self.
In Windblown World, distinguished Americanist Douglas Brinkley has gathered a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of Kerouac's life, 1947–1954. Here is Kerouac as a hungry young writer finishing his first novel, The Town and City, while forging crucial friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. Truly a self-portrait of the artist as a young man, these journals show a sensitive soul charting his own progress as a writer and responding to his literary forebears. Finally and perhaps most appealing to Kerouac's legion of fans, the journals tell of the events that would eventually be immortalized in On the Road, as Kerouac narrates two trips across the United States and Mexico and slowly cultivates his idea for a jazz novel. This unique and indispensable volume is sure to garner major critical attention and become an integral element of the Beat oeuvre.
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- Title Windblown World : The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954
- Author Kerouac, Jack
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 387
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2004-10-07
- Bookseller's Inventory # 710026-6
- ISBN 9780670033416 / 0670033413
- Weight 1.48 lbs (0.67 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.34 x 1.39 in (23.62 x 16.10 x 3.53 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004054882
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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