Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, 1940-1956 and 1957-1969. 2 Volumes

Charters, Ann (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0140234446 / ISBN 13: 9780140234442

Edité par Penguin, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1996

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2 volumes (1st volume is a 2nd printing).

N° de réf. du vendeur 002041

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, 1940-1956 and 1957-1969. 2 Volumes
• Éditeur: Penguin, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• Date de parution: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0140234446
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780140234442
• Reliure: Trade Paperback
• Édition: First Thus
• État de l'article: Near Fine

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

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.