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  The Portable Jack Kerouac (The Viking Portable Library)

  by Ann Charters, Jack Kerouac

  This essential introduction to one of America's most important writers is the only anthology of Jack Kerouac's work ever published. Featuring selections from the many volumes of the "Legend of Duluoz," in chronological order, the volume also includes poetry, letters, and essays on Buddhism, writing, and the Beat Generation.
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  Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1 1940-1956

  by Ann Charters, Jack Kerouac

  The life and craft of Jack Kerouac are traced through some of his most personal and mesmerizing letters. Written between 1940, when he was a freshman in college, and 1956, immediately before his leap into celebrity with the publication of On the Road, these letters offer valuable insights into Kerouac's family life, friendships with Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, and others.
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  Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 2: 1957-1969

  by Ann Charters, Jack Kerouac

  The first volume of Jack Kerouac's selected letters, published in 1995, was hailed as an important and revealing addition to Kerouac scholarship. This second and final volume of letters, written between 1957, the year On the Road was published, to one day before his death in 1969 at age forty-seven, tell Kerouac's life story through his candid correspondence with friends, confidants, and editors--among them... (more)
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  Book of Dreams

  by Jack Kerouac

  Book of Dreams is Kerouac's record of his dreamlife, a parallel autobiography of the soul, the sleeper's On the Road: "I got my weary bones out of bed & through eyes swollen with sleep swiftly scribbled in pencil in my little dream notebook till I had exhausted every rememberable item...." In 1961 City Lights published excerpts from the manuscript. This new, expanded edition marks the first publication of... (more)