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Visions of Cody

Visions of Cody

Kerouac, Jack

Paperback

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0140179070
ISBN13: 9780140179071
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Aug 1 1993
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.74
Language: English
To read On the Road but not Visions of Cody is to take a nice sightseeing tour but to forgo the spectacular rapids of Jack Kerouac's wildest writings.--The New York Times Book Review

The centerpiece of all [Kerouac's] novels.--The Washington Post

Originally written in 1951-1952, Visions of Cody was an underground classic by the time it was finally published in 1972, three years after Kerouac's death. Utilizing a radical, experimental form (the New Journalism fifteen years early, as Dennis McNally noted in Desolate Angel), Kerouac examines his own New York life in a collection of colorful stream-of-consciousness essays. Always transfixed by Neal Cassady--here named Cody Pomeray--along with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, Kerouac also explores the feelings he had for a man who inspired much of his work.

Transcribing taped conversations between members of their group as they took drugs and drank, Visions of Cody reveals an intimate portrait of people caught up in destructive relationships with substances, and one another, capturing the members of the Beat Generation in the years before any label had been affixed to them.

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