{"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Unknown Kerouac","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis remarkable gathering ofpreviously unpublished writings shines new light on the \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e author\u003c\/b\u003e's life, from his French Canadian childhood to his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. 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":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49733657395473,"sku":"NGR9781598534986","price":33.09,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49806801731857,"sku":"CIN159853498XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50393738084625,"sku":"CIN159853498XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51746420162833,"sku":"GOR008816742","price":44.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/159853498X.jpg?v=1751309892","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-ie\/products\/unknown-kerouac-book-jack-kerouac-9781598534986","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}