Jack Kerouac Books
Tristessa
By Jack Kerouac
Based on Jack Kerouac’s real-life love affair in Mexico City, this novel follows a man’s doomed relationship with a woman as her life spirals out of control. “[Kerouac] loves language, and he obvio...
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Maggie Cassidy
By Jack Kerouac
From the bard of the Beat Generation comes a profoundly moving, autobiographical novel of childhood and first love. “A surprisingly simple and appealing tale of a young student’s fumbling search fo...
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Visions of Cody
By Jack Kerouac
“To read On the Road but not Visions of Cody is to take a nice sightseeing tour but to forgo the spectacular rapids of Jack Kerouac’s wildest writings.”—The New York Times Book Review “The centerpi...
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Kerouac: Selected Letters
An “exhilarating” (Chicago Tribune) selection of Jack Kerouac’s most personal, truthful, and mesmerizing letters that trace his life and craft—edited by Ann Charters “As we just now begin to map fu...
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Vanity of Duluoz
By Jack Kerouac
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 t...
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