Windblown World
The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954
$53.83
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
4 April 2006
Summary
Selections from Jack Kerouac’s journals of the late 1940s and early 1950s-the raw material for what became his classic novel On the Road, edited and with an introduction by Douglas Brinkley.
“A story of self-invention, perseverance, and breakthrough … What Kerouac wanted most, these journals reveal, was to dig down into the dark American earth … and turn up his own rich shovelful of truth.” - The New York Times Book Review
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143036067 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143036068 |
| Author: | Douglas Brinkley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 4 April 2006 |
| Weight: | 411g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 139mm |
| Audience Age: | 14-18 |
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Critics Review
“A must-have for anyone who has an interest in Kerouac and the Beats” - Johnny Depp “A poignant selection.” - Time “Should help rescue Kerouac from the cultists and secure his admission to the mainstream Hall of Fame.” - New York Times Book Review”
Douglas Brinkley
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the “Beat generation” and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and Big Sur. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of “one vast book,” The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.
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