Kerouac: A Biography - Couverture souple

Charters, Ann

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0312113471 ISBN 13 : 9780312113476

Editeur : St. Martin's Griffin, 1994

Synopsis

Now that Kerouac's major novel, On the Road is accepted as an American classic, academic critics are slowly beginning to catch up with his experimental literary methods and examine the dozen books comprising what he called 'the legend of Duluoz.' Nearly all of his books have been in print internationally since his death in 1969, and his writing has been discovered and enjoyed by new readers throughout the world. Kerouac's view of the promise of America, the seductive and lovely vision of the beckoning open spaces of our continent, has never been expressed better by subsequent writers, perhaps because Kerouac was our last writer to believe in America's promise--and essential innocence--as the legacy he would explore in his autobiographical fiction.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Ann Charters received her B.A. at Berkeley and her Ph.D. at Columbia. She first met Kerouac at a poetry reading in Berkeley in 1956, and compiled a comprehensive bibliography of his work in 1967. A professor of English at the University of Connecti

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Now that Kerouac's major novel, On the Road is accepted as an American classic, academic critics are slowly beginning to catch up with his experimental literary methods and examine the dozen books comprising what he called the legend of Duluoz.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: St. Martin's Griffin
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0312113471
• ISBN 13: 9780312113476
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 408