The Portable Jack Kerouac (Portable Library) - Softcover

Kerouac, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140178198 ISBN 13: 9780140178197

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1996

Synopsis

Presents selections from Jack Kerouac's novels, poetry, letters, and essays.

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Review:

Jack Kerouac produced a substantial body of writings in his mercurial career. His drug- and alcohol-inspired furious bursts on the typewriter created energetic and exciting prose, chronicling his experiences and impressions of the untapped restlessness of America in the 1950s. On the Road is certainly his most recognized and influential work, but among his other efforts are books and stories that range from inspired beauty and to sad desperation. Ann Charters, who wrote the first Kerouac biography in 1973 and worked with him in preparing his first bibliography, has assembled here a first-rate sample of some of his better work. The collection is a perfect way to sample Kerouac and necessary for those looking past On the Road.

About the Author:

Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.

Ann Charters is the editor of The Portable Sixties Reader, The Portable Jack Kerouac, two volumes of Jack Kerouac's Selected Letters, and Beat Down to Your Soul. She teaches at the University of Connecticut.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140178198
• ISBN 13: 9780140178197
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 656
• Editor: Charters Ann