| Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 2: 1957-1969 Contributor(s): Kerouac, Jack (Author), Charters, Ann (Editor) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0140296158 ISBN-13: 9780140296150 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $29.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2000 Annotation: This second and final volume of letters, written between 1957, the year "On the Road" was published, to one day before his death in 1969 at age forty-seven, tell Kerouac's life story through his candid correspondence with friends, confidants, and editors. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 99017374 |
| Physical Information: 1.33" H x 5.19" W x 7.71" (1.04 lbs) 608 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first volume of Jack Kerouac's selected letters, published in 1995, was hailed as an important and revealing addition to Kerouac scholarship. This second and final volume, comprising letters written between 1957, the year On the Road was published, and the day before his death in 1969 at age forty-seven, tells Kerouac's life story through his candid correspondence with friends, confidants, and editors--among them Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Philip Whalen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joyce Johnson, and Malcolm Cowley. Documenting his continuing development as a writer and his travels, love affairs, and complicated family life, the letters also reveal Kerouac's amazing courage in the force of criticism and his never-ending quest to be the best writer possible. Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1957-1969 offers unparalleled insight into the life and mind of this giant of the American landscape. |