
Book of Sketches
Jack Kerouac(Author)
Penguin USA (Publisher)
Published on 4. April 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-14-200215-5 (ISBN)
Description
In 1952 and 1953 as he wandered around America, Jack Kerouac jotted down spontaneous prose poems, or "sketches" as he called them, on small notebooks that he kept in his shirt pockets. The poems recount his travels-New York, North Carolina, Lowell (Massachusetts, Kerouac's birthplace), San Francisco, Denver, Kansas, Mexico-observations, and meditations on art and life. The poems are often strung together so that over the course of several of them, a little story-or travelogue-appears, complete in itself. Published for the first time, Book of Sketches offers a luminous, intimate, and transcendental glimpse of one of the most original voices of the twentieth century at a key time in his literary and spiritual development.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Penguin Putnam Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 155 mm
Width: 123 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
290 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-200215-5 (9780142002155)
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Persons
Jack Kerouac; Introduction by George Condo