Visions of Cody / Jack Kerouac ; introduction by Allen Ginsberg

Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969)

ISBN 10: 023396486X / ISBN 13: 9780233964867

Published by London : Deutsch, 1973

About this Item

Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiii, 398 pages ; 24 cm. Subjects; Beats (Persons) ; Fiction. Authors ; Fiction. Authors. Beats (Persons). Authors, American 20th century Fiction. fiction in english, 1900 texts. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Visions of Cody / Jack Kerouac ; introduction by Allen Ginsberg
• Publisher: London : Deutsch
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 023396486X
• ISBN 13: 9780233964867
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

Visions of Cody is a novel by Jack Kerouac, perhaps his most stylistically free and varied. It was written in 1951-1952, and though not published in its entirety until 1973, it had by then achieved an underground reputation.

Like nearly all of Kerouac's works, Visions of Cody involves a "mythologizing" of his life, here as "Jack Duluoz", renaming characters and imposing grander themes on actual events while rapturously describing the mundane around him. It is also heavily focused on his perception of and relationship to Neal Cassady, renamed "Cody Pomeray."

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.