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    612-822-4611

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The Town and the City

The Town and the City

Kerouac, Jack

Paperback

Series: Harvest Book

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0156907909
ISBN13: 9780156907903
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Published: Oct 21 1970
Pages: 512
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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.

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