Windblown World

Windblown World
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 481
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ISBN-10 : 9780143036067
ISBN-13 : 0143036068
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Book Synopsis Windblown World by : Jack Kerouac

Download or read book Windblown World written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections from Jack Kerouac’s journals of the late 1940s and early 1950s – the raw material for what became his classic novel On the Road September 5, 2017, marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of On the Road Jack Kerouac is best known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels. Yet it is only his private journals, in which he set down the raw material of his life and thinking, that reveal to us the real Kerouac. In Windblown World, distinguished Americanist Douglas Brinkley has gathered a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of Kerouac’s life, 1947 to 1954. Here is Kerouac as a hungry young writer finishing his first novel while forging crucial friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. Truly a self-portrait of the artist as a young man, this unique and indispensable volume is sure to become an integral element of the Beat oeuvre.


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