The Haunted Life - Hardcover

Kerouac, Jack

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ISBN 10: 0141394080 ISBN 13: 9780141394084

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2014

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In 1944, twenty-two year old Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript called The Haunted Life. It turned up thirteen years later in a Columbia University dormitory, and then in 2002, at a Sotheby's auction house. Now, 70 years after Kerouac wrote it, his second novel will be published for the first time.

The Haunted Life is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home town. But with the war escalating in Europe and his two closest friends both plotting their escapes, he realises how sheltered his upbringing has been. As he surveys the competing influences of his youth, he struggles to determine what might lead to an intellectually authentic life.

The Haunted Life is ultimately a meditation on intellectual truth, male friendship and the desire for movement - all themes that would dominate Kerouac's later work.

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12 Spring Books Not To Miss, "Library Journal"
Praise for "The Haunted Life"
12 Spring Books Not To Miss, "Library Journal"
"Provides an exciting look into Kerouac's formative years" "Los Angeles Review of Books"
"A very satisfying introduction to Kerouac's attempts at finding his voice and vision as a writer" "Providence Sunday Journal"
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Praise for The Haunted Life
12 Spring Books Not To Miss, Library Journal
"Provides an exciting look into Kerouac's formative years"--Los Angeles Review of Books
"A very satisfying introduction to Kerouac's attempts at finding his voice and vision as a writer"--Providence Sunday Journal
Praise for The Haunted Life

12 Spring Books Not To Miss, Library Journal

"Provides an exciting look into Kerouac's formative years"--Los Angeles Review of Books

"A very satisfying introduction to Kerouac's attempts at finding his voice and vision as a writer"--Providence Sunday Journal

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