Jack Kerouac : selected letters, 1940-1956

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Jack Kerouac : selected letters, 1940-1956

edited with an introduction and commentary by Ann Charters

Viking, 1995-1999

  • 1940-1956
  • 1957-1969

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Pagination: 1940-1956: xxvi, 629 p. ; 1957-1969: xxvii, 514 p

Includes bibliographical references and index

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1940-1956 ISBN 9780670849529

Description

In his prolific correspondence, Jack Kerouac set down the raw material of the life that he would later transmute into his multi-volume "Legend of Duluoz", he also refined the seemingly freewheeling and spontaneous prose style that became his trademark. The collection of letters in this volume were written between 1940, when Kerouac was a college freshman and 1956, immediately before he became a celebrity with the publication of "On the Road". They offer insights into Kerouac's family life, friendships, travels, love affairs and literary apprenticeship.
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1957-1969 ISBN 9780670861903

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Written between 1957 and two days before his death in 1969, Jack Kerouac's letters tell his own story through his candid and voluminous correspondence to friends and confidants - from Malcolm Cowley and Allen Ginsberg to John Clellon Holmes and Sterling Lord. Here, Kerouac explores his development as a writer and reveals how the onslaught of publicity and criticism after the publication of "On the Road" nearly destroyed him.

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