Kerouac: A Biography
by Ann Charters
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0312113471
- ISBN 13
- 9780312113476
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About This Item
St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994. First new trade paperback printing in this edition. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light spine cracking.
Now that Kerouac's major novel, On the Road is accepted as an American classic, academic critics are slowly beginning to catch up with his experimental literary methods and examine the dozen books comprising what he called 'the legend of Duluoz.' Nearly all of his books have been in print internationally since his death in 1969, and his writing has been discovered and enjoyed by new readers throughout the world. Kerouac's view of the promise of America, the seductive and lovely vision of the beckoning open spaces of our continent, has never been expressed better by subsequent writers, perhaps because Kerouac was our last writer to believe in America's promise--and essential innocence--as the legacy he would explore in his autobiographical fiction.
Now that Kerouac's major novel, On the Road is accepted as an American classic, academic critics are slowly beginning to catch up with his experimental literary methods and examine the dozen books comprising what he called 'the legend of Duluoz.' Nearly all of his books have been in print internationally since his death in 1969, and his writing has been discovered and enjoyed by new readers throughout the world. Kerouac's view of the promise of America, the seductive and lovely vision of the beckoning open spaces of our continent, has never been expressed better by subsequent writers, perhaps because Kerouac was our last writer to believe in America's promise--and essential innocence--as the legacy he would explore in his autobiographical fiction.
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- Title
- Kerouac: A Biography
- Author
- Ann Charters
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0312113471
- ISBN 13
- 9780312113476
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Griffin
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- used books, discount books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature; Biography; First Editions; Non-Fiction;
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