Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1957-1969

Charters, Ann, editor

ISBN 10: 0670861901 / ISBN 13: 9780670861903

Edité par Viking Press, New York, 1999

A propos de cet article

Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is new and unread. Press material laid in. The second and concluding volume of Kerouac letters, starting the year of the publication of "On the Road" and continuing to the day before Kerouac's death in 1969 at age 47. Among his correspondents in these years were Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Joyce Johnson, Malcolm Cowley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Philip Whalen. 514 pp. Including notes and index. Free of any markings, not ex-library.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1957-1969
• Éditeur: Viking Press, New York
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0670861901
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780670861903
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition; First Printing.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine

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Synopsis

Written between 1957 and two days before his death in 1969, Kerouac's letters tell his own story through his candid and voluminous correspondence to friends and confidants - from Malcolm Cowley Allen Ginsberg to John Clellon Holmes and Sterling Lord. Here, Kerouac explores his development as a writer and reveals how the onslaught of publicity and criticism after the publication of On the Road nearly destroyed him. In the second and final volume of this life-in-letters, Ann Charters, renowned Kerouac biographer, features selected lettters that illuminate the latter years of this iconic writer - the years of fame, alcoholism and disillusionment.

À propos de l?auteur

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. His first novel, The Town and the City, was published in 1950 and On the Road in 1957. He died in St Petersburg, Florida, in 1969 at the age of forty-seven.