{"product_id":"vanity-of-duluoz-an-adventurous-education-1935-46-9780140236392","title":"Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46","description":"\u003cb\u003eWritten from the vantage point of the psychedelic sixties, this fascinating, \"loud-mouthed novel\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e) paints a portrait of young Kerouac, dedicated and disciplined in his determination to be an important American writer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The capstone of one of the most extraordinary, influential, maddening, and ultimately prodigious achievements in recent literature.\"--John Clellan Holmes\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally subtitled \"An Adventurous Education, 1935-1946,\" this\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis a key volume in Jack Kerouac's lifework, the series of autobiographical novels he referred to as \u003ci\u003eThe Legend of Duluoz. \u003c\/i\u003eWith the same tender humor and intoxicating wordplay he brought to his masterpieces \u003ci\u003eOn the Road \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Dharma Bums\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVanity of Duluoz\u003c\/i\u003e presents the formative years in the life of Jack Duluoz--Kerouac's alter ego--beginning with his high school experiences as a sporting jock in small-town New England and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Just as Jack's glamorous new adult life begins, so does World War II, and he joins the US Navy to travel the world. The more he experiences, the more he realizes the limits of his former plans, and decides to and return to New York, where he collides with the start of the Beat movement and a riot of drugs, sex, and writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten in 1967, \u003ci\u003eVanity of Duluoz \u003c\/i\u003ewas Kerouac's final work published before his death in 1969.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jack Kerouac\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140236392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/1994 pg. 141\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJack Kerouac\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Town and the City\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 1950, but it was \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the \"Beat generation\" and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them \u003ci\u003eThe Dharma Bums\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Subterraneans\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBig Sur\u003c\/i\u003e. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of \"one vast book,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Duluoz Legend\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43331310878835,"sku":"9.78014E+12","price":26.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_7a018c6a-710f-4360-b69b-112b0a5a4500.jpg?v=1754655566","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/vanity-of-duluoz-an-adventurous-education-1935-46-9780140236392","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}