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Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 2: 1957-1969

Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 2: 1957-1969 - Paperback

by Jack Kerouac
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (Editor)Audience:Young AdultPublish date:2000-11-01Pages:608
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140296150ISBN-10:140296158UPC:9780140296150Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, HistoricalSize:7.71 x 5.19 x 1.33 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SCX33EEYB7
An illuminating glimpse into the life and art of Beat legend Jack Kerouac through a collection of letters that "reveals the boldness and originality of Kerouac's artistic vision" (The Boston Globe).

"It remains clear from his later letters that Kerouac understood what he was doing as a writer. He consistently explains his aesthetic, his plan to create the Duluoz Legend of books, and the essentially benign charity of his vision."--San Francisco Chronicle

The first volume of Jack Kerouac's selected letters was hailed as an important and revealing addition to Kerouac scholarship. This second and final volume, comprising letters written between 1957, the year On the Road was published, and the day before his death in 1969 at age forty-seven, tells Kerouac's life story through his canid correspondences with friends, confidants, and editors--among them Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Philip Whalen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joyce Johnson, and Malcolm Cowley. Documenting his continuing development as a writer and his travels, love affairs, and complicated family life, the letters also reveal Kerouac's amazing courage in the face of criticism and his never-ending quest to be the best writer possible.

Kerouac: Selected Letters 1957-1969 offers unparalleled insight into the life and mind of this giant of the American landscape.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140296150ISBN-10:140296158UPC:9780140296150Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, HistoricalSize:7.71 x 5.19 x 1.33 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SCX33EEYB7
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the "Beat generation" and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and Big Sur. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of "one vast book," The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.
Publisher: Penguin Books

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Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (Editor)

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Jack Kerouac

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