From the bard of the Beat Generation Jack Kerouacs Maggie Cassidy is an autobiographical novel of young love published in Penguin Modern Classics.Though publishers stopped Maggie Cassidys Jack Duluoz and On the Roads Sal Paradise from sharing the same name Kerouac meant the books to be two parts of the same life. While On the Road made Paradise (and Kerouac) a hero for generations to come of the disaffected and restless Maggie Cassidy is an affectionate portrait of the teenager that made the man - of friendship and first love growing up in a New England mill town. Duluoz is a high school athletics and football star who meets Maggie Cassidy and begins a devoted inconstant tender adolescent love affair. It is one of the most sustained poetic pieces of Kerouacs spontaneous prose.Jack Kerouac (1922-69) was an American novelist poet artist and part of the Beat Generation. His first published novel The Town and the City appeared in 1950 but it was On the Road published in 1957 that made Kerouac famous. Publication of his many other books followed among them The Subterraneans Big Sur and The Dharma Bums. Kerouac died in Florida at the age of forty-seven.If you enjoyed Maggie Cassidy you might like Kerouacs The Subterraneans and Pic also available in Penguin Modern Classics. A very unique cat - a French Canadian Hinayana Buddhist Beat Catholic savant Allen Ginsberg About the Author Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell Massachusetts where he said he roamed fields and riverbanks by day and night wrote little novels in my room first novel written at age eleven also kept extensive diaries a... See more
From the bard of the Beat Generation Jack Kerouacs Maggie Cassidy is an autobiographical novel of young love published in Penguin Modern Classics.Though publishers stopped Maggie Cassidys Jack Duluoz and On the Roads Sal Paradise from sharing the same name Kerouac meant the books to be two parts of the same life. While On the Road made Paradise (and Kerouac) a hero for generations to come of the disaffected and restless Maggie Cassidy is an affectionate portrait of the teenager that made the man - of friendship and first love growing up in a New England mill town. Duluoz is a high school athletics and football star who meets Maggie Cassidy and begins a devoted inconstant tender adolescent love affair. It is one of the most sustained poetic pieces of Kerouacs spontaneous prose.Jack Kerouac (1922-69) was an American novelist poet artist and part of the Beat Generation. His first published novel The Town and the City appeared in 1950 but it was On the Road published in 1957 that made Kerouac famous. Publication of his many other books followed among them The Subterraneans Big Sur and The Dharma Bums. Kerouac died in Florida at the age of forty-seven.If you enjoyed Maggie Cassidy you might like Kerouacs The Subterraneans and Pic also available in Penguin Modern Classics. A very unique cat - a French Canadian Hinayana Buddhist Beat Catholic savant Allen Ginsberg About the Author Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell Massachusetts where he said he roamed fields and riverbanks by day and night wrote little novels in my room first novel written at age eleven also kept extensive diaries and newspapers covering my own-invented horse-racing and baseball and football worlds (as recorded in the novel Doctor Sax). He was educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell. He said that he decided to become a writer at age seventeen under influence of Sebastian Sampas local young poet who later died on Anzio beach head; read the life of Jack London at eighteen and decided to also be a lonesome traveler; early literary influences Saroyan and Hemingway; later Wolfe (after I had broken leg in Freshman football at Columbia read Tom Wolfe and roamed his New York on crutches).Kerouac wished however to develop his own new prose style which he called spontaneous prose. He used this technique to record the life of the American traveler and the experiences of the Beat generation of the 1950s. This may clearly be seen in his most famous novel On the Road and also in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His first more orthodox published novel was The Town and the City. Jack Kerouac who described himself as a strange solitary crazy Catholic mystic was working on his longest novel a surrealistic study of the last ten years of his life when he died in 1969 aged forty-seven.Other works by Jack Kerouac include Big Sur Desolation Angels Lonesome Traveler Visions of Gerard Tristessa and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues. On the Road: The Original Scroll the full uncensored transcription of the original manuscript of On the Road is published by Penguin Modern Classics.