The Town and the City

About the author

Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts to French-Canadian parents. The author of On the Road, Dharma Bums, Desolation Angels, and Big Sur, among other books, he is widely regarded as the preeminent writer of the Beat generation.

Summary

“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.
Kerouac draws on his New England mill-town boyhood to create the world of George and Marguerite Martin and their eight children, each endowed with an energy and a vision of life. The Town and the City is vividly drawn with poetic prose, lacking the stream-of-consciousness style of his later works. Fans of Kerouac as well as Steinbeck, will be enthralled by this dramatic family saga capped by a final scene that poignantly sets up On the Road.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Kerouac
• Publisher: Hachette Children's Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.10.1970
• EAN: 9780156907903
• ISBN: 978-0-15-690790-3
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 31 mm
• Weight: 426 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Family Life / General, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, FICTION: Historical / World War II, FICTION: Classics, FICTION: World Literature / American / 21st Century, FICTION: World Literature / American / 20th Century, Classic fiction: general and literary, FICTION: Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II, Literature / General Fiction