The Town And The City

by Jack Kerouac

Overview

“It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go.”— Kerouac on The Town and the City. Kerouac's debut novel is a great coming of age story which can be read as the essential prelude to his later classics.
Kerouac draws on his New England mill-town boyhood to create the world of George and Marguerite Martin and their eight children, each endowed with an energy and a vision of life. The Town and the City is vividly drawn with poetic prose, lacking the stream-of-consciousness style of his later works. Fans of Kerouac as well as Steinbeck, will be enthralled by this dramatic family saga capped by a final scene that poignantly sets up On the Road.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780156907903
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	10/21/1970
Series:	Harvest Book
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	512
Sales rank:	370,862
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts to French-Canadian parents. The author of On the Road, Dharma Bums, Desolation Angels, and Big Sur, among other books, he is widely regarded as the preeminent writer of the Beat generation.