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Vanity of Duluoz : An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 by Jack Kerouac (1994, Uk-B Format Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100140236392
ISBN-139780140236392
eBay Product ID (ePID)49837
Product Key Features
Book TitleVanity of Duluoz : an Adventurous Education, 1935-46
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1994
TopicLiterary
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorJack Kerouac
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight7.8 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN94-181669
Dewey Edition20
ReviewsPraise for Vanity of Duluoz : "A loud-mouthed novel . . . A frontal assault on life, a total abandonment to feeling." -- The Guardian "The capstone of one of the most extraordinary, influential, maddening, and ultimately prodigious achievements in recent literature." --John Clellan Holmes
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Grade ToUP
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisOriginally subtitled "An Adventurous Education, 1935-1946," Vanity of Duluoz is a key volume in Jack Kerouac's lifework, the series of autobiographical novels he referred to as The Legend of Duluoz . With the same tender humor and intoxicating wordplay he brought to his masterpieces On the Road and The Dharma Bums , Kerouac takes his alter ego from the football fields of small-town New England to the playing fields and classrooms of Horace Mann and Columbia, out to sea on a merchant freighter plying the sub-infested waters of the North Atlantic during World War II, and back to New York, where his friends are the writers who would one day become known as the Beat generation and where he published his first novel. Written in 1967 from the vantage point ot the psychedelic sixties, Vanity of Duluoz gives a fascinating portrait of the young Kerouac, dedicated and disciplined in his determination from an early age to be an important American writer., Written from the vantage point of the psychedelic sixties, this fascinating, "loud-mouthed novel" ( The Guardian ) paints a portrait of young Kerouac, dedicated and disciplined in his determination to be an important American writer. "The capstone of one of the most extraordinary, influential, maddening, and ultimately prodigious achievements in recent literature."--John Clellan Holmes Originally subtitled "An Adventurous Education, 1935-1946," this is a key volume in Jack Kerouac's lifework, the series of autobiographical novels he referred to as The Legend of Duluoz. With the same tender humor and intoxicating wordplay he brought to his masterpieces On the Road and The Dharma Bums , Vanity of Duluoz presents the formative years in the life of Jack Duluoz--Kerouac's alter ego--beginning with his high school experiences as a sporting jock in small-town New England and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Just as Jack's glamorous new adult life begins, so does World War II, and he joins the US Navy to travel the world. The more he experiences, the more he realizes the limits of his former plans, and decides to and return to New York, where he collides with the start of the Beat movement and a riot of drugs, sex, and writing. Written in 1967, Vanity of Duluoz was Kerouac's final work published before his death in 1969.
LC Classification NumberPS3521.E735V36 1994
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