Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1 1940-1956 - Hardcover

Kerouac, Jack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670849529 ISBN 13: 9780670849529

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1995

Synopsis

A collection of prolific writings from correspondence with friends, family members, and lovers follows the period between 1940, when Kerouac was a college freshman, and 1956, immediately before he became a celebrity. 12,500 first printing. Tour.

About this title

Review:

Jack Kerouac is one of America's most influential literary figures. On the Road begot the Beat Generation, which ushered in the hippie movement, then free love, then drugs and so on and so on. Yet the real Kerouac bore little resemblance to this enduring image as an open-road rebel and spokesman of the Beats. He was a lover of women and wine, all right, but also a sad, confused romantic who longed for acceptance and often viewed life with a child's perspective. By capturing his emotions in his personal writings, Selected Letters helps shed light on a figure who was as troubled as he was rebellious.

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: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0670849529
• ISBN 13: 9780670849529
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 672