Maggie Cassidy
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.17 (897 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0140179062 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jack's Best Kept Secret When Kerouac was good he was superb. This is young love in a glorious, mind-bending nutshell. Beautifully written and deeply felt.When I was much younger and had experienced my first brutal betrayal in life, this novel was my greatest comfort. Kerouac had uncanny vision into the human heart, and was capable of expressing the awful paradox of young love, the joy. You really get into the mind of a teenage boy. I recently read this book. I liked it a lot, it is a very sweet story about the relationship of two teenagers. But being a female teenager, it was a little hard for me to relate. I think a teenage boy would enjoy this a lot more than I did. There was a lot of good dialog and other parts of the plot (sports, friends, family) than the relationship that was enjoya. Story of SWEET young love. Mrs D. AwesomePants I read this book about 3 years ago. For whatever reason, this is the only Kerouac book i've read so far (people tend to read On the Road first, or maybe Dharma Bums). I liked it a lot, it is a very sweet story about the relationship of two teenagers. But being a female teenager when i read it (i'm 22 now), it was a little hard for me to relate. I think a teenag
Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. . Jack Kerouac(1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St
It is a remarkable , bittersweet evocation of the awkwardness and the joy of growing up in America.. Heard it in the womb, heard it in the cradle, heard it in school , heard it on the floor of life's stock exchange where dreams are traded for gold." —Henry MillerOne of the dozen books written by Jack Kerouac in the early and mid-1950s, Maggie Cassidy was not published until 1959, after the appearance of On the Road had made its author famous overnight, Long out of print, this touching novel of adolescent love in a New England mill town, with its straight-forward narrative structure, is one of Kerouac's most accesible works. "When someone asks 'Where does Kerouac get that stuff?' say: 'From you!' He lay awake all night listening with eyes and ears. A night of a thousand years
Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. . About the Author Jack Kerouac(1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody