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Availability:In StockContributor:Jack KerouacAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1993-08-01Pages:448
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140179071ISBN-10:140179070UPC:9780140179071Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Classics, PsychologicalSize:7.74 x 5.06 x 0.84 inchesWeight:0.7804Product ID:SCXJ2W169W
"To read On the Road but not Visions of Cody is to take a nice sightseeing tour but to forgo the spectacular rapids of Jack Kerouac's wildest writings."--The New York Times Book Review

"The centerpiece of all [Kerouac's] novels."--The Washington Post

Originally written in 1951-1952, Visions of Cody was an underground classic by the time it was finally published in 1972, three years after Kerouac's death. Utilizing a radical, experimental form ("the New Journalism fifteen years early," as Dennis McNally noted in Desolate Angel), Kerouac examines his own New York life in a collection of colorful stream-of-consciousness essays. Always transfixed by Neal Cassady--here named Cody Pomeray--along with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, Kerouac also explores the feelings he had for a man who inspired much of his work.

Transcribing taped conversations between members of their group as they took drugs and drank, Visions of Cody reveals an intimate portrait of people caught up in destructive relationships with substances, and one another, capturing the members of the Beat Generation in the years before any label had been affixed to them.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140179071ISBN-10:140179070UPC:9780140179071Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Classics, PsychologicalSize:7.74 x 5.06 x 0.84 inchesWeight:0.7804Product ID:SCXJ2W169W
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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