2004, ISBN: 9780670033416

[ED: Hardcover/gebunden], [PU: VIKING], Hardback edition with dust jacket. Very good, completely clean overall condition. Pages and book edges white. Golden title on spine. Original image… More...

[ED: Hardcover/gebunden], [PU: VIKING], Hardback edition with dust jacket. Very good, completely clean overall condition. Pages and book edges white. Golden title on spine. Original image of the book. JACK KEROUAC is best known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels. Yet it is only his private journals, in which he catalogued his innermost feelings, that reveal to us the real Kerouac—his true, honest, deep philosophical self. In Windblown World, distinguished historian Douglas Brinkley has gathered together a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of Kerouac’s intrepid life, beginning in 1947 when he was twenty-five years old and ending in 1954. Truly a self-portrait of the artist as a young man, these journals show a sensitive soul charting his own progress as a writer and responding to his most important literary forebears, which included Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Spengler, Joyce, Twain, and Thomas Wolfe. Here is Kerouac as a hungry young writer struggling to perfect and finish his first novel, The Town and the City, while forging crucial friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. The journals go on to tell of the events that would eventually be immortalized in On the Road, as Kerouac travels through every region of the country and slowly cultivates his idea for a jazz novel. The peripatetic Kerouac’s lifelong devotion to mystical Catholicism and his tremendous love of "the essential and everlasting America” abound in these confessional pages, as do his brooding melancholy, his youthful doubts and chronic fears, and his overriding conviction that there would soon be a “great new revolution of the soul.” As Brinkley notes in his introduction, Windblown World “offers riveting proof of Kerouac’s deep desire to become a great and enduring American novelist. Brimming with youthful innocence and the coming-of-age struggle to make sense out of a sinful world, these pages reveal an earnest artist trying to discover his authentic voice.” DOUGLAS BRINKLEY is Stephen E. Ambrose Professor of History and Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studi, DE, [SC: 2.80], wie neu, gewerbliches Angebot, 23,5 x 16 cm, 388 p, [GW: 670g], Banküberweisung, Selbstabholung und Barzahlung, [CT: Englischsprachige Bücher / Länder/Reisen (englisch)]<

2004, ISBN: 9780670033416

[ED: Hardcover/gebunden], [PU: VIKING], Hardback edition with dust jacket. Very good, completely clean overall condition. Pages and book edges white. Golden title on spine. Original image… More...

[ED: Hardcover/gebunden], [PU: VIKING], Hardback edition with dust jacket. Very good, completely clean overall condition. Pages and book edges white. Golden title on spine. Original image of the book. JACK KEROUAC is best known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels. Yet it is only his private journals, in which he catalogued his innermost feelings, that reveal to us the real Kerouac—his true, honest, deep philosophical self. In Windblown World, distinguished historian Douglas Brinkley has gathered together a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of Kerouac’s intrepid life, beginning in 1947 when he was twenty-five years old and ending in 1954. Truly a self-portrait of the artist as a young man, these journals show a sensitive soul charting his own progress as a writer and responding to his most important literary forebears, which included Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Spengler, Joyce, Twain, and Thomas Wolfe. Here is Kerouac as a hungry young writer struggling to perfect and finish his first novel, The Town and the City, while forging crucial friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. The journals go on to tell of the events that would eventually be immortalized in On the Road, as Kerouac travels through every region of the country and slowly cultivates his idea for a jazz novel. The peripatetic Kerouac’s lifelong devotion to mystical Catholicism and his tremendous love of "the essential and everlasting America” abound in these confessional pages, as do his brooding melancholy, his youthful doubts and chronic fears, and his overriding conviction that there would soon be a “great new revolution of the soul.” As Brinkley notes in his introduction, Windblown World “offers riveting proof of Kerouac’s deep desire to become a great and enduring American novelist. Brimming with youthful innocence and the coming-of-age struggle to make sense out of a sinful world, these pages reveal an earnest artist trying to discover his authentic voice.” DOUGLAS BRINKLEY is Stephen E. Ambrose Professor of History and Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studi, DE, [SC: 2.50], wie neu, gewerbliches Angebot, 23,5 x 16 cm, 388 p, [GW: 670g], Banküberweisung, Selbstabholung und Barzahlung<

2004, ISBN: 0670033413

Hardcover

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ISBN: 9780670033416

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