Visions of Cody

Kerouac, Jack

ISBN 10: 0070342016 / ISBN 13: 9780070342019

Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, NY, USA, 1972

About this Item

xii, 398pp. Light brown endpapers. Top edge of textblock dyed dark brown. Maroon cloth w blindstamp lettering to cover, gold lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Colour illustrated DJ is clean and without wear, preserved in mylar cover. Octavo. With an Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. 2nd printing.

Seller Inventory # 048731

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Visions of Cody
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, NY, USA
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070342016
• ISBN 13: 9780070342019
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First U.S. Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature and Modern Classics

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Synopsis

"What I'm beginning to discover now is something beyond the novel and beyond the arbitrary confines of the story. . . . I'm making myself seek to find the wild form, that can grow with my wild heart . . . because now I know MY HEART DOES GROW." —Jack Kerouac, in a letter to John Clellon Holmes

Written in 1951-52, Visions of Cody was an underground legend by the time it was finally published in 1972. Writing in a radical, experimental form ("the New Journalism fifteen years early," as Dennis McNally noted in Desolate Angel), Kerouac created the ultimate account of his voyages with Neal Cassady during the late forties, which he captured in different form in On the Road. Here are the members of the Beat Generatoin as they were in the years before any label had been affixed to them. Here is the postwar America that Kerouac knew so well and celebrated so magnificently. His ecstatic sense of superabundant reality is informed by the knowledge of mortality: "I'm writing this book because we're all going to die. . . . My heart broke in the general despair and opened up inward to the Lord, I made a supplication in this dream."

"The most sincere and holy writing I know of our age." —Allen Ginsberg

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.