Vanity of Duluoz
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- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
16 April 2012
Summary
The tale of Kerouac’s alter-ego, Vanity of Duluoz presents Jack Duluoz’s high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts 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. As Jack experiences more, he realizes the limits of his former plans and returns to New York at the start of the Beat movement, to a riot of drugs, sex and writing. Vanity of Duluoz was Kerouac’s final work published before his death in 1969.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141198217 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141198214 |
| Author: | Jack Kerouac |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 16 April 2012 |
| Weight: | 202g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 130mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
A loud-mouthed novel… A frontal assault on life, a total abandonment to feeling
A loud-mouthed novel… A frontal assault on life, a total abandonment to feeling * Guardian *
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969) was an American novelist, poet, artist and part of the Beat Generation. Most of his life was spent in the vast landscapes of America or living with his mother, with whom he spent most of his life. Kerouac’s best known works are On the Road and The Dharma Bums.
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