{"title":"Library Of America Jack Kerouac Edition Ser","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"jack-kerouac-road-novels-1957-1960-loa-174-book-jack-kerouac-9781598530124","title":"Jack Kerouac: Road Novels 1957-1960 (LOA #174)","description":"The raucous, exuberant, often wildly funny account of a journey through America and Mexico, Jack Kerouac's \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e instantly defined a generation on its publication in 1957: it was, in the words of a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e reviewer, \"the clearest and most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat.'\" Written in the mode of ecstatic improvisation that Allen Ginsberg described as \"spontaneous bop prosody,\" Kerouac's novel remains electrifying in its thirst for experience and its defiant rebuke of American conformity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In his portrayal of the fervent relationship between the writer Sal Paradise and his outrageous, exasperating, and inimitable friend Dean Moriarty, Kerouac created one of the great friendships in American literature; and his rendering of the cities and highways and wildernesses that his characters restlessly explore is a hallucinatory travelogue of a nation he both mourns and celebrates. Now, The Library of America collects \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e together with four other autobiographical \"road books\" published during a remarkable four-year period.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Dharma Bums\u003c\/i\u003e (1958), at once an exploration of Buddhist spirituality and an account of the Bay Area poetry scene, is notable for its thinly veiled portraits of Kerouac's acquaintances, including Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Kenneth Rexroth. \u003ci\u003eThe Subterraneans\u003c\/i\u003e (1958) recounts a love affair set amid the bars and bohemian haunts of San Francisco. \u003ci\u003eTristessa\u003c\/i\u003e (1960) is a melancholy novella describing a relationship with a prostitute in Mexico City. \u003ci\u003eLonesome Traveler\u003c\/i\u003e (1960) collects travel essays that evoke journeys in Mexico and Europe, and concludes with an elegiac lament for the lost world of the American hobo. Also included in \u003ci\u003eRoad Novels\u003c\/i\u003e are selections from Kerouac's journal, which provide a fascinating perspective on his early impressions of material eventually incorporated into \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49518822031633,"sku":"CIN1598530127G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50191950184721,"sku":"CIN1598530127VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50269480976657,"sku":"GOR006036652","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50658445099281,"sku":"GOR009052882","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51038816665873,"sku":"NIN9781598530124","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53597943562513,"sku":"CIN1598530127A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1598530127.jpg?v=1751342113"},{"product_id":"unknown-kerouac-book-jack-kerouac-9781598534986","title":"The Unknown Kerouac","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis remarkable gathering ofpreviously unpublished writings shines new light on the \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e author\u003c\/b\u003e's life, from his French Canadian childhood to his \u003cb\u003emeteoric rise to literary fame\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Edited and published with unprecedented access tothe Kerouac archives, \u003ci\u003eThe Unknown Kerouac\u003c\/i\u003e presentstwo lost novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Night Is My Woman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOld Bullin the Bowery\u003c\/i\u003e, which Kerouac wrote in French duringthe especially fruitful years of 1951 and 1952. Discoveredamong his papers in the mid-nineties, they havebeen translated into English for the first time by Jean-Christophe Cloutier, who incorporates Kerouac'sown partial translations.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Also included are two journals from the heart of thissame crucial period. In \u003ci\u003ePrivate Philologies, Riddles,and a Ten-Day Writing Log\u003c\/i\u003e, Kerouac recounts a briefstay in Denver-where he works on an early version of \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, reads dime novels, and even rides in arodeo-and shows him contemplating writers likeChaucer and Joyce and playing with riddles andetymologies. \u003ci\u003eJournal 1951\u003c\/i\u003e, begun during a stay in aBronx VA hospital, charts, in ecstatic, moving, andself-revealing pages, the wave of insights and breakthroughsthat led Kerouac to the most singular transformationof American prose style since Hemingway.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This landmark volume is rounded out with thememoir \u003ci\u003eMemory Babe\u003c\/i\u003e, a poignant evocation of childhoodplay and reverie in a robust immigrant community,in which Kerouac uncannily retrieves and distillsthe subtlest sense impressions. And finally, in an interviewwith his longtime friend and fellow Beat JohnClellon Holmes and in the late fragment \u003ci\u003eBeat Spotlight\u003c\/i\u003e Kerouac reflects on his meteoric career and unlookedfor celebrity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. 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