Description: It was in his letters that Jack Kerouac set down the raw material that he transmuted into his novels, exploring and refining the spontaneous prose style that became his trademark. The letters in this volume, written between 1940, when Kerouac was a freshman at college, and 1956, immediately before his breathless leap into celebrity with the publication of On the Road , offer invaluable insights into Kerouac's family life, his friendships with Neal and Carolyn Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and William S. Burroughs, his travels, love affairs, and literary apprenticeship. At once fascinating reading and a major addition to Kerouac scholarship, here is a rare portrait of the writer as a young adventurer of immense talent, energy, and ambition in the midst of writing and living an American legend.
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Signed: No
Book Series: Historical
Ex Libris: Yes
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Inscribed: No
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Release Year: 1996
Literary Movement: Beat
Era: 1950s
Personalized: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Book Title: Kerouac: Selected Letters : Volume 1: 1940-1956
Number of Pages: 656 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 1996
Topic: Letters, Literary, American / General
Genre: Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 15.8 Oz
Item Length: 7.7 in
Author: Jack Kerouac
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback
