Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 by Kerouac, Jack

Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140236392)

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Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 by Kerouac, Jack

Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46

$22.00
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 by Kerouac, Jack

Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46

$22.00
Format: Paperback
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Written in 1967 from the vantage point of the psychedelic sixties, Vanity of Duluoz is a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young man

Originally subtitled "An Adventurous Education, 1935-1946," Vanity of Duluoz presents the formative years in the life of Jack Duluoz--Kerouac's alter ego--beginning with his high school experiences as a sporting jock in small-town New England and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Just as Jack's glamorous new adult life begins, so does World War II, and he joins the US Navy to travel the world. The more he experiences, the more he realizes the limits of his former plans, and decides to and return to New York, where he collides with the start of the Beat movement, and a riot of drugs, sex and writing. Vanity of Duluoz was Kerouac's final work published before his death in 1969.

Author: Jack Kerouac
ISBN-10: 0140236392
ISBN-13: 9780140236392
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1994
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/1994 pg. 141
By Jack Kerouac
By Jack Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the "Beat generation" and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and Big Sur. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of "one vast book," The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.

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