3.7
The Town & the City
by Jack Kerouac
"In this compelling first novel, Kerouac draws on his own New England mill-town boyhood to create the Martin family, whose five sons and three daughters are each endowed with an energy and vision of life that drives the narrative from the early part of the century to the years following World War II."--Cover
FICTION_GENERAL
RELEASED1978
PUBLISHERHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
LENGTH499
LANGUAGEEN
Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian ancestry. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements.
3.7
The Town & the City
by Jack Kerouac
"In this compelling first novel, Kerouac draws on his own New England mill-town boyhood to create the Martin family, whose five sons and three daughters are each endowed with an energy and vision of life that drives the narrative from the early part of the century to the years following World War II."--Cover
FICTION_GENERAL
RELEASED1978
PUBLISHERHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
LENGTH499
LANGUAGEEN
Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian ancestry. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements.
