The Town and the City

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The author of a number of a hugely influential and popular novels - including ON THE ROAD and DHARMA BUMS - Jack Kerouac is remembered as one of the key figures of the legendary Beat generation. Zusammenfassung A coming of age story, which draws on the author's New England childhood.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Brinkley, Jack Kerouac
• Assisted by: Douglas Brinkley (Introduction), Brinkley Douglas (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.02.2000
• EAN: 9780141182230
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118223-0
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Penguin Pocketbooks; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; Penguin Pocketbooks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; New York City, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, Beat style, Biographical fiction, US Northeast: New England