Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954

Format: First trade paperback printing

Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.

Product dimensions: n/a

Publishing Info: Penguin, New York, 2005

Language: English

ISBN - 13: 9780143036067

 

Edited and with an introduction by Douglas Brinkley.

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 Brinkley has gathered a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of Kerouac's life, 1947 to 1954. Here is Kerouac as a hungry young writer finishing his first novel while forging crucial friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. Truly a self-portrait of the artist as a young man, this unique and indispensable volume is sure to become an integral element of the Beat oeuvre.

 

JackKerouac.com, a site for scholars and students of Keouac

 

Interview excerpt with Kerouac

 

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