The Portable Jack Kerouac - Hardcover

Charters, Ann; Kerouac, Jack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067084957X ISBN 13: 9780670849574

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1995

Synopsis

Jack Kerouac is one of the most widely read and profoundly influential writers in the American canon. This one-volume omnibus, planned by the author himself before his death and completed by his biographer, is a rich and potent distillation of the writer's genius, and will astonish those readers only familiar with On the Road.

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: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 067084957X
• ISBN 13: 9780670849574
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 656