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‘His most ambitious novel. An opportunity to sample the tenderness, richness and vibrancy of his writing.’ New Statesman
‘It is easy enough for us now to read the distress of America in the movies and novels of the Fifties, to see the panic and disarray behind the cosy fictions. But Kerouac read it then, when the Fifties had scarcely started. His best work is always elegiac, a mourning for something vanished before it has even properly arrived.’ New Society
‘“Visions of Cody” recreates Cody’s world in a series of epiphanies, all recorded with the expansive lyricism of a Whitman whose America has reached the end of the road. It is at once an epitaph and a rhapsodic celebration of the American Beat world.’ TLS
'Oh that Cody dream, last night he was all attentive as he never really or only rarely is – in a suit, suits always look new on him, with hair wild and bushy not because uncombable but had been ruffled in the coffee-drinking, gabbling-at-bars excitement of the broad crazy dark and dusty New York night.'
'Visions of Cody' is a celebration of the life of Neal Cassady, Kerouac's great friend and inspiration. Cassady lived his life wild and penniless amongst society's misfits and outcasts, and through him Kerouac created one of the few lasting heroes of twentieth-century literature.
''Visions of Cody' recreates Cody's world in a series of epiphanies, all recorded with the expansive lyricism of a Whitman whose America has reached the end of the road. It is at once an epitaph and a rhapsodic celebration of the American Beat world.'
TLS
'A work of primitive genius.'
ALLEN GINSBERG in the introduction to this edition.
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- PublisherHarperCollins Distribution Services
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0586050752
- ISBN 13 9780586050750
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages528
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Panther Books / Granada Publishing, London
(1980)
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ISBN 13: 9780586050750
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Book Description Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. FIRST PANTHER PAPERBACK EDITION, 1980. Front cover blurb: "His most ambitious novel". Mass market paperback. Printed in Great Britain. Slight handling wear, mild marginal toning, former owner's neat ink name to first page, small abrasion to top edge of front cover, otherwise a nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 526pp. Uncommon first Panther paperback edition. SB-97. Seller Inventory # 037099
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