| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780140234442 | | Publisher: Penguin Books | | Publish Date: 3/1/1996 | | Buy.com Sku: 30015909 | | Item#: R3TR5C | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 67998 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7.75H x 5L x 1T |
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| | | The life and craft of Jack Kerouac are traced through some of his most personal and mesmerizing letters. Written between 1940, when he was a freshman in college, and 1956, immediately before his leap into celebrity with the publication of On the Road, these letters offer valuable insights into Kerouac's family life, friendships with Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, and others.
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This book is the first of a projected two-volume set of Kerouac's letters.
| PraiseBloomsbury Review
"...[P]erhaps 80 percent of the letters in this collection furnish thematic enticements into the Kerouac canon....Indeed, a fairly constant theme in both the letters and the fiction of Jack Kerouac is simply ZEST--or verve or gusto or relish: The idea is to rush forward into the experience if only to HAVE the experience." - Peter Thorpe May/June 1996Atlantic Monthly
"For those already familiar with some of Kerouac's books and interested in the man who wrote them, 'Selected Letters: 1940-1956', arranged chronologically with headnotes by Charters, will be a revelation." - Ralph Lombreglia August 1995 New York Times Book Review
"Ms. Charters has selected, and meticulously annotated, nearly 200 letters written by Kerouac (along with nine written to him, principally from his mother)...Included...is a rich array of correspondence, most of it previously unpublished." - Ann Douglas |
| Author BioCharters has taught English at the University of Connecticut, and is a noted scholar of Kerouac and the Beat Generation.
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