Jack Kerouac The haunted life (Penguin Modern Classics) /anglais - Softcover
The Haunted Life is the comingofage story of Peter Martin a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home town But with the war escalating in Europe and his two closest friends both plotting their escapes he realizes how sheltered his upbringing has been As he surveys the competing influences of his youth he struggles to determine what might lead to an intellectually authentic life
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Hudson Valley News, 3/5/14
This one brought back a slew of memories.”
Below the Fold, 3/4/14
A surprisingly readable, tightly traditional narrative built around the dialogue of the main characters.”
Los Angeles Review of Books, 3/25/14
Tietchen's informed detailing of the novella's history provides an exciting look into Kerouac's formative years The Haunted Life and Other Writings can best be understood as part of a whole, addressing this crucial period of his personal and creative development, that ultimately shifted the direction of American literature in the 1950s.”
Providence Sunday Journal, 6/15/14
A very satisfying introduction to Kerouac's attempts at finding his voice and vision as a writer The prose is remarkably clear-eyed, romantic, cynical and full of adolescent angst we see a great writer shaping, trying out his various tools and techniques and we glimpse the young writer desperate to hit the open road, readying himself for a new world full of existential doubt, lyrical epiphanies and the longings of a younger soul.”
Jack Kerouac was born in 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts. The best-known of his many works, On the Road, published in 1957, was an international bestseller. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, at the age of forty-seven.
Review:
12 Spring Books Not To Miss, Library Journal
Hudson Valley News, 3/5/14
This one brought back a slew of memories.”
Below the Fold, 3/4/14
A surprisingly readable, tightly traditional narrative built around the dialogue of the main characters.”
Los Angeles Review of Books, 3/25/14
Tietchen's informed detailing of the novella's history provides an exciting look into Kerouac's formative years The Haunted Life and Other Writings can best be understood as part of a whole, addressing this crucial period of his personal and creative development, that ultimately shifted the direction of American literature in the 1950s.”
Providence Sunday Journal, 6/15/14
A very satisfying introduction to Kerouac's attempts at finding his voice and vision as a writer The prose is remarkably clear-eyed, romantic, cynical and full of adolescent angst we see a great writer shaping, trying out his various tools and techniques and we glimpse the young writer desperate to hit the open road, readying himself for a new world full of existential doubt, lyrical epiphanies and the longings of a younger soul.”
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