{"product_id":"the-portable-jack-kerouac-paperback","title":"The Portable Jack Kerouac - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJack Kerouac\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnn Charters\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive Kerouac collection-now in Penguin Classics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e To coincide with the 50th anniversary celebration of \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, Penguin Classics republishes this landmark collection. \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Jack Kerouac\u003c\/i\u003e made clear the ambition and accomplishment of Kerouac's \"Legend of Duluoz\"-the story of his life told in his many \"true story\" novels. Featuring selections from Kerouac's autobiographical fiction, as well as from his poetry, criticism, Buddhist writings, and letters, \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Jack Kerouac\u003c\/i\u003e offers a total immersion in an American master. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\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.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 656\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.21 x 7.68 x 5.18 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42694917226559,"sku":"9780143105060","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/b021ed7eefe828f8ad6d08e728f11db6.webp?v=1765002352","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/the-portable-jack-kerouac-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}