{"product_id":"the-portable-jack-kerouac-9780143105060","title":"The Portable Jack Kerouac","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis definitive Kerouac collection--the only anthology of his work ever published--is an essential introduction to one of the country's most influential writers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Kerouac's work represents the most extensive experiment in language and literary form undertaken by an American writer of his generation.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis one-volume omnibus, planned by Kerouac himself before his death and completed by his biographer, Ann Charters, makes clear the ambition and accomplishment of Jack Kerouac's \"Legend of Duluoz\"--the story of his life told in the course of his many \"true-story novels.\" As Kerouac once wrote, \"The whole thing forms one enormous comedy, seen through the eyes of poor Ti Jean (me), otherwise known as Jack Duluoz, the world of raging action and folly and also of gentle sweetness seen through the keyhole of his eye.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis compilation presents selections from the \"Legend of Duluoz\" novels, in chronological order, from \u003ci\u003eDr. Sax\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eOn the Road \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eBig Sur\u003c\/i\u003e, and also includes poetry, letters, and essays on Buddhism, writing, and the Beat Generation. \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Jack Kerouac \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a total immersion in the mind of an American master. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePenguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJack Kerouac\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Town and the City\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 1950, but it was \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the \"Beat generation\" and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them \u003ci\u003eThe Dharma Bums\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Subterraneans\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBig Sur\u003c\/i\u003e. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of \"one vast book,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Duluoz Legend\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnn Charters\u003c\/b\u003e is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Sixties Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Jack Kerouac\u003c\/i\u003e, two volumes of Jack Kerouac's \u003ci\u003eSelected Letters\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBeat Down to Your Soul\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches at the University of Connecticut.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50565421629714,"sku":"9780143105060","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0c316220-f9c6-4926-9394-9453da6195cf.jpg?v=1731885706","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-portable-jack-kerouac-9780143105060","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}