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Windblown World : The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954

by Jack Kerouac

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Selections from Jack Kerouac’s journals of the late 1940s and early 1950s – the raw material for what became his classic novel On the Road   September 5, 2017, marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of On the RoadJack Kerouac ... Read more
Selections from Jack Kerouac’s journals of the late 1940s and early 1950s – the raw material for what became his classic novel On the Road
 
September 5, 2017, marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of On the Road

Jack Kerouac is best known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels. Yet it is only his private journals, in which he set down the raw material of his life and thinking, that reveal to us the real Kerouac. In Windblown World, distinguished Americanist Douglas Brinkley has gathered a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of Kerouac’s life, 1947 to 1954. Here is Kerouac as a hungry young writer finishing his first novel while forging crucial friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. Truly a self-portrait of the artist as a young man, this unique and indispensable volume is sure to become an integral element of the Beat oeuvre. Less

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File size7.8x5.3x1.1inches
Print pages808
PublisherPenguin Books
Publication date April 1, 2006
ISBN9780143036067
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JACK KEROUAC
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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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