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Title: Vanity of Duluoz Condition: New Subtitle: An Adventurous Education,1935-46 Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0140236392 EAN: 9780140236392 ISBN: 9780140236392 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Genre: Literary Criticism Release Date: 25/08/1994 Description: Written from the vantage point of the psychedelic sixties, this fascinating, “loud-mouthed novel” (The Guardian) paints a portrait of young Kerouac, dedicated and disciplined in his determination to be an important American writer. “The capstone of one of the most extraordinary, influential, maddening, and ultimately prodigious achievements in recent literature.”—John Clellan Holmes Originally subtitled “An Adventurous Education, 1935–1946,” this is a key volume in Jack Kerouac’s lifework, the series of autobiographical novels he referred to as The Legend of Duluoz. With the same tender humor and intoxicating wordplay he brought to his masterpieces On the Road and The Dharma Bums, 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. Written in 1967, Vanity of Duluoz was Kerouac’s final work published before his death in 1969. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 198mm Item Length: 128mm Item Width: 12mm Item Weight: 190g Author: No Author Release Year: 1994
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