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Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1: 1940-1956

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (Introduction by)Audience:Young AdultPublish date:1996-03-01Pages:656
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140234442ISBN-10:140234446UPC:9780140234442Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Letters, AmericanSize:8.11 x 4.86 x 1.43 inchesWeight:1.142Product ID:SCZBV3VC98
An "exhilarating" (Chicago Tribune) selection of Jack Kerouac's most personal, truthful, and mesmerizing letters that trace his life and craft--edited by Ann Charters

"As we just now begin to map fully the fallout of [the Beat Generation's] creative explosion, these letters offer an invaluable blueprint to the intricate, high-yield ballistics that went into creating it."--San Francisco Examiner

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 apprenticeships.

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140234442ISBN-10:140234446UPC:9780140234442Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Letters, AmericanSize:8.11 x 4.86 x 1.43 inchesWeight:1.142Product ID:SCZBV3VC98
Jack Kerouac(1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.
Ann Charters is the editor of The Portable Sixties Reader, The Portable Jack Kerouac, two volumes of Jack Kerouac's Selected Letters, and Beat Down to Your Soul. She teaches at the University of Connecticut.
Publisher: Penguin Books

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