Libro The Voice is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac De Joyce Johnson

portada The Voice is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Penguin Group

Autor

Joyce Johnson

Año

2013

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

489

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780143123965

Categorías

Biografías de escritores

The Voice is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac

Joyce Johnson (Autor) · Penguin Group · Tapa Blanda

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A groundbreaking new biography of Jack Kerouac from the author of the award-winning memoir Minor CharactersJoyce Johnson brilliantly peels away layers of the Kerouac legend in this compelling new book. Tracking Kerouac’s development from his boyhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, through his fateful encounters with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and John Clellon Holmes to his periods of solitude and the phenomenal breakthroughs of 1951 that resulted in his composition of On the Road followed by Visions of Cody, Johnson shows how his French Canadian background drove him to forge a voice that could contain his dualities and informed his unique outsider’s vision of America. This revelatory portrait deepens our understanding of a man whose life and work hold an enduring place in both popular culture and literary history.