The Portable Jack Kerouac (The Viking Portable Library) - Softcover

Charters, Ann; Kerouac, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140178198 ISBN 13: 9780140178197

Publisher: Viking, 1996

Synopsis

Presents selections from Jack Kerouac's novels, poetry, letters, and essays.

About this title

Review:

"Kerouac's work represents the most extensive experiment in language and literary form undertaken by an American writer of his generation."
-The New York Times Book Review

About the Author:

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called 'spontaneous prose'. He used this technique to record the life of the American 'traveler' and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably in On the Road and also in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His other works include Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa, and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues. Jack Kerouac died in 1969.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140178198
• ISBN 13: 9780140178197
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 656