Maggie Cassidy - by Jack Kerouac (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A touching autobiographical novel of adolescent love in a New England mill town, Maggie Cassidy is a remarkable, bittersweet evocation of the awkwardness and the joy of growing up in America. "Each book by Jack Kerouac in unique, a telepathic diamond."-Allen Ginsberg<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A touching autobiographical novel of adolescent love in a New England mill town, <em>Maggie Cassidy</em> is a remarkable, bittersweet evocation of the awkwardness and the joy of growing up in America. </p><p>"Each book by Jack Kerouac in unique, a telepathic diamond ... Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later half xx-century, a synthesis of Proust, Céline, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Genet, Thelonious Monk, Basho, Charlie Parker, and Kerouac's own athletic sacred insight."--Allen Ginsberg</p><p><strong>About the author</strong></p><p>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 football scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. He quit school in his sophomore year after a dispute with his football coach. In 1947, enthused by bebop, the rebel attitude of his friends and the throng of hobos, drug addicts and hustlers he encountered in New York, he decided to discover America and hitchhike across the country. His writing was openly autobiographical and he developed a style he referred to as 'spontaneous prose' which he used to record the experiences. His first novel, <em>The Town and the City</em>, appeared in 1950, but it was <em>On the Road</em>, first 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 controversial and best-known writers of his time. Publication of his many other books followed, among them <em>The Dharma Bums</em>, <em>The </em><em>Subterraneans</em>, and <em>Big Sur</em>. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"He makes a scene live. He traps on the page the astonishing truth."--<em>San Fransisco Chronicle</em></p><p>"Burning lyricism!"--<em>Los Angles Times</em></p><p>"[Kerouac] started a cultural revolution, unprecedented, world-wide extent ... the whole Beat movement."--William S. Burroughs</p><p>"Each book by Jack Kerouac in unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion. Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later half xx-century, a synthesis of Proust, Céline, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Genet, Thelonious Monk, Basho, Charlie Parker, and Kerouac's own athletic sacred insight."--Allen Ginsberg</p><br>
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