Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46

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Item specifics

Condition
Acceptable: A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the cover but integrity still intact. ...
Release Year
1994
ISBN
9780140236392
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140236392
ISBN-13
9780140236392
eBay Product ID (ePID)
49837

Product Key Features

Book Title
Vanity of Duluoz : an Adventurous Education, 1935-46
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1994
Topic
Literary
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Author
Jack Kerouac
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
94-181669
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
Praise for Vanity of Duluoz : "A loud-mouthed novel . . . A frontal assault on life, a total abandonment to feeling." -- The Guardian "The capstone of one of the most extraordinary, influential, maddening, and ultimately prodigious achievements in recent literature." --John Clellan Holmes
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Grade To
UP
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
Originally subtitled "An Adventurous Education, 1935-1946," Vanity of Duluoz 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 , Kerouac takes his alter ego from the football fields of small-town New England to the playing fields and classrooms of Horace Mann and Columbia, out to sea on a merchant freighter plying the sub-infested waters of the North Atlantic during World War II, and back to New York, where his friends are the writers who would one day become known as the Beat generation and where he published his first novel. Written in 1967 from the vantage point ot the psychedelic sixties, Vanity of Duluoz gives a fascinating portrait of the young Kerouac, dedicated and disciplined in his determination from an early age to be an important American writer., 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.
LC Classification Number
PS3521.E735V36 1994

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