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Kerouac: Selected Letters : Volume 1: 1940-1956 by Jack Kerouac (1996, Uk-B Format Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100140234446
ISBN-139780140234442
eBay Product ID (ePID)46956
Product Key Features
Book TitleKerouac: Selected Letters : Volume 1: 1940-1956
Number of Pages656 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1996
TopicLetters, American / General, Literary
GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
AuthorJack Kerouac
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight15.8 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN94-012911
Dewey Edition20
Reviews"The most exhilirating book of the year." — Chicago Tribune "As we just now begin to map full the fallout of [the Beat Generation's] creative explosion, these letters offer an invaluable blueprint to the intricate, high-yield ballistics that went into creating it." — San Francisco Examiner "The greatest addition to the Kerouac canon in recent years" —Steven Moore, Review of contemporary Fiction "To have [his letters] gathered in one place . . . is to be overwhelmed by his passion for the printed word, by his hunger for experience and by his ability to describe both in language that sings. . . . The most exhilirating book of the year." —Thomas McGonigle, Chicago Tribune, "The most exhilirating book of the year." -- Chicago Tribune "As we just now begin to map full the fallout of [the Beat Generation's] creative explosion, these letters offer an invaluable blueprint to the intricate, high-yield ballistics that went into creating it." -- San Francisco Examiner "The greatest addition to the Kerouac canon in recent years" --Steven Moore, Review of contemporary Fiction "To have [his letters] gathered in one place . . . is to be overwhelmed by his passion for the printed word, by his hunger for experience and by his ability to describe both in language that sings. . . . The most exhilirating book of the year." --Thomas McGonigle, Chicago Tribune, "The most exhilirating book of the year." — Chicago Tribune "As we just now begin to map full the fallout of [the Beat Generation''s] creative explosion, these letters offer an invaluable blueprint to the intricate, high-yield ballistics that went into creating it." — San Francisco Examiner "The greatest addition to the Kerouac canon in recent years" —Steven Moore, Review of contemporary Fiction "To have [his letters] gathered in one place . . . is to be overwhelmed by his passion for the printed word, by his hunger for experience and by his ability to describe both in language that sings. . . . The most exhilirating book of the year." —Thomas McGonigle, Chicago Tribune
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Volume NumberVol. 1
Grade ToUP
Dewey Decimal818.5/4/09
SynopsisIt 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., An "exhilarating" ( Chicago Tribune ) selection of Jack Kerouac's most personal, truthful, and mesmerizing letters that trace his life and craft-edited by Ann Charters "As we just now begin to map fully the fallout of the Beat Generation's creative explosion, these letters offer an invaluable blueprint to the intricate, high-yield ballistics that went into creating it."- San Francisco Examiner 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 apprenticeships. 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., An "exhilarating" ( Chicago Tribune ) selection of Jack Kerouac's most personal, truthful, and mesmerizing letters that trace his life and craft--edited by Ann Charters "As we just now begin to map fully the fallout of [the Beat Generation's] creative explosion, these letters offer an invaluable blueprint to the intricate, high-yield ballistics that went into creating it."-- San Francisco Examiner 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 apprenticeships. 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.
LC Classification NumberPS3551.N464
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