Maggie Cassidy

by JACK KEROUAC

2020-12-31 14:48:37

"When someone asks ''Where does [Kerouac] get that stuff?'' say: ''From you!'' He lay awake all night listening with eyes and ears. A night of a thousand years. Heard it in the womb, heard it in the cradle, heard it in school , heard it on... Read more
"When someone asks ''Where does [Kerouac] get that stuff?'' say: ''From you!'' He lay awake all night listening with eyes and ears. A night of a thousand years. Heard it in the womb, heard it in the cradle, heard it in school , heard it on the floor of life''s stock exchange where dreams are traded for gold." —Henry Miller

One of the dozen books written by Jack Kerouac in the early and mid-1950s, Maggie Cassidy was not published until 1959, after the appearance of On the Road had made its author famous overnight, Long out of print, this touching novel of adolescent love in a New England mill town, with its straight-forward narrative structure, is one of Kerouac''s most accesible works. It is a remarkable , bittersweet evocation of the awkwardness and the joy of growing up in America.

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File size7.01 X 4.29 X 0.71 in
PublisherGallimard
Publication date May 13, 2013
LanguageFrench
ISBN9780140179064
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (March 12, 1922 – Oct 21, 1969), often known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist of French Canadian ancestry, who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsbe...

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