Self-Portrait
Collected Writings of Jack Kerouac
$33.99
- Paperback
424 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2026
Summary
A collection of previously unpublished writing culled from the Kerouac archive.
Jack Kerouac’s archive is vast. Throughout his life he was constantly writing, and he meticulously saved and catalogued his material. The result is that beyond the work published in his lifetime there has been a rich stream of posthumous writing that is far from tapped, adding depth to his lifework—the Duluoz Legend—and our understanding of Kerouac the man. Far from being the adrenalized thrill-seeker that…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644285886 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1644285886 |
| Author: | Jack Kerouac |
| Publisher: | Rare Bird Books |
| Imprint: | Rare Bird Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 424 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2026 |
| Weight: | 348g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm |
| Series: | Sal Paradise |
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Critics Review
“WITH SELF-PORTRAIT, editors Paul Maher and Charles Shuttleworth have, in effect, provided the literary equivalent of the DVD extras to Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend…. As editors, their approach is respectful, sensitive. Maher and Shuttleworth also pen short contextual introductions – welcome scene setters – and provide detailed footnotes that are useful rather than intrusive…” * Rock and the Beat Generation *
About The Author
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.
His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the “Beat generation” and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time.
Publication of many other books followed, among them The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and Big Sur. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of “one vast book,” The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.
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