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The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
By Johnson, Joyce
- ISBN
- 9780670025107
- Publisher
- Viking
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Reviewed on August 1, 2012 | Arts and Humanities
In Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir and Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957–1958, Johnson recounts her love affair with the author of On the Road (1957). Now, in this well-documented biography, she focuses on Kerouac's first 30 years, analyzing the impact his French-Canadian heritage and his first language, Joual, had on his life and work. Drawing on Kerouac material in the New York Public Library's Berg Collection, Johnson p...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
