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Jack Kerouac is best known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels. Yet it is only his private journals, in which he set down the raw material of his life and thinking, that reveal to us the real Kerouac. In Windblown World , distinguished Americanist Douglas... read more

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These meticulous logs of Kerouac's progress on his first novel, The Town and the City, filled most of two journals, running from June 1947 to September 1948, when Kerouac completed the manuscript.

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  1. Jack Kerouac (Author)
  2. Douglas Brinkley

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Original Language: English
Publisher: NY: Viking ()
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0670033413
Page Count: 432

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