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 'It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go' Kerouac on THE TOWN AND THE CITY Kerouac's debut novel is a great coming of age story which can be read as the essential prelude to his later classics. Inspired by grief over his father's death and gripped by determination to write the Great American Novel, he draws largely on his own New England childhood. 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