THE PORTABLE JACK KEROUAC.

Kerouac, Jack. (Text) Charters, Ann. (Edited)

ISBN 10: 067084957X / ISBN 13: 9780670849574

Published by VIKING., NY, 1995

About this Item

First edition. Close to fine in fine dust jacket. (3 tiny specks of foxing at top edge).

Seller Inventory # 26496

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE PORTABLE JACK KEROUAC.
• Publisher: VIKING., NY
• Publication Date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 067084957X
• ISBN 13: 9780670849574
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • 215

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Synopsis

A collection of excerpts from Kerouac's "Legend of Duluoz" offers a chronological tour of his life and includes Visions of Gerard, Doctor Sax, Vanity of Duluoz, On the Road, Visions of Cody, Tristessa, and The Dharma Bums. 15,000 first printing. Tour.

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.