{"product_id":"kerouac-jack-kerouac-9780140234442","title":"Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1: 1940-1956","description":"It was in his letters that Jack Kerouac set down the raw material that he transmuted into his novels, exploring and refining the spontaneous prose style that became his trademark. The letters in this volume, written between 1940, when Kerouac was a freshman at college, and 1956, immediately before his breathless leap into celebrity with the publication of \u003cb\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/b\u003e, offer invaluable insights into Kerouac's family life, his friendships with Neal and Carolyn Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and William S. Burroughs, his travels, love affairs, and literary apprenticeship. At once fascinating reading and a major addition to Kerouac scholarship, here is a rare portrait of the writer as a young adventurer of immense talent, energy, and ambition in the midst of writing and living an American legend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jack Kerouac\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0140234446\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140234442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.11h x 4.86w x 1.43d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/24\/1996 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/1996","brand":"Jack Kerouac","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44634219872511,"sku":"9780140234442","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_96c7e007-a645-41bf-b7fe-0f509e41be78.jpg?v=1703588175","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kerouac-jack-kerouac-9780140234442","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}