The Portable Jack Kerouac

This definitive Kerouac collection—the only anthology of his work ever published—is an essential introduction to one of the country’s most influential writers.

“Kerouac’s work represents the most extensive experiment in language and literary form undertaken by an American writer of his generation.”—The New York Times Book Review

This one-volume omnibus, planned by Kerouac himself before his death and completed by his biographer, Ann Charters, makes clear the ambition and accomplishment of J...