Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1 1940-1956

Kerouac, Jack; Ann Charters (editor)

ISBN 10: 0670849529 / ISBN 13: 9780670849529

Edité par Viking-Penguin Group, New York, 1995

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SOFTCOVER, stiff pictorial wraps. 4th ptg. Slight sunning to tan title/author band, front cover fore-edge slightly raising. Firm, uncreased binding, clean interior. xxvi,629 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1 1940-1956
• Éditeur: Viking-Penguin Group, New York
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0670849529
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780670849529
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• Type de livre: Book
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature: Novels/Stories, Drama, Modern 1sts

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Synopsis

In his prolific correspondence, Jack Kerouac set down the raw material of the life that he would later transmute into his multi-volume "Legend of Duluoz", he also refined the seemingly freewheeling and spontaneous prose style that became his trademark. The collection of letters in this volume were written between 1940, when Kerouac was a college freshman and 1956, immediately before he became a celebrity with the publication of "On the Road". They offer insights into Kerouac's family life, friendships, travels, love affairs and literary apprenticeship.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 apprenticeship. 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.