The Voice is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac

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The Voice is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac

Name: The Voice is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780670025107

Joyce Johnson

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This work, a profile of the iconic author's early years offers insight into his efforts to bridge his dual cultural heritage while exploring how his French Canadian background enriched his prose. The author peels away layers of the Kerouac legend to show how, caught between two cultures and two languages, he forged a voice to contain his dualities. She shows how Kerouac's French Canadian background enriched his prose and gave him a unique outsider's vision of America. Kerouac exhibited a kind of idiosyncratic perfectionism, and his legendary 'spontaneous' writing was preceded by a series of abandoned novels in which characters, episodes, and story lines were continually reshuffled.

Categories:

Biography & Autobiography - Novelists, Poets & Playwrights

Year:

2012

Publisher:

Viking

Language:

english

Pages:

512

ISBN 10:

0670025100