The Windblown World: The Journals Of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 - Hardcover

Kerouac, Jack; Brinkley, Douglas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670033413 ISBN 13: 9780670033416

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2004

Synopsis

Excerpts and passages from the personal diaries of the great Beat writer chronicle a pivotal era in Kerouac's life, describing the creation of his first novel, The Town and City; his special friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady; and his own take on the events described in On the Road. 25,000 first printing.

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Review:

"The quintessential hipster turns out to a be a guy whose hallmarks are tenderness, bewilderment, and yearning." --Time

"A story of self-invention, perseverance, and breakthrough. . . . The traditional rap against Kerouac--that he was a sort of half-baked dopehead primitivist who prized sensation over sense--crumbles on a reading of his journals. . . . What Kerouac wanted most, these journals reveal, was to dig down into the dark American earth as his heroes Twain and Whitman had and turn up his own rich shovelful of truth." --Walter Kirn, The New York Times Book Review

"A must read for anyone who has an interest in Kerouac and the Beats." --Johnny Depp

Synopsis:

This is a selection of Kerouac's journals that provide further insight into the man behind the words. Jack Kerouac is best-known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels. Yet it is only his private journals, in which he set down the raw material of his life and thinking, that reveal to readers the real Kerouac. In "Windblown World", distinguished academic Douglas Brinkley has gathered a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period in Kerouac's life - 1947 to 1954. Here is Kerouac as a hungry young writer finishing his first novel while forging crucial relationships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Neal Cassady. Truly a self-portrait of the artist as a young man, this unique and indispensable volume is sure to become an integral element of the Beat oeuvre.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0670033413
• ISBN 13: 9780670033416
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 387
• Editor: Brinkley Douglas