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Maggie Cassidy by Jack Kerouac (1993, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100140179062

ISBN-139780140179064

eBay Product ID (ePID)52011

Product Key Features

Book TitleMaggie Cassidy

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1993

TopicRomance / Historical / 20th Century, Literary, Romance / General, Biographical

GenreFiction

AuthorJack Kerouac

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight5.8 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN93-247893

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsPraise for Maggie Cassidy : "A bittersweet evocation of love, lust, and loss in small-town thirties America." --Ann Charters "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. 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 Miller

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Grade ToUP

Synopsis"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. 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 Miller One 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. It is a remarkable, bittersweet evocation of the awkwardness and the joy of growing up in America., From the bard of the Beat Generation comes a profoundly moving, autobiographical novel of childhood and first love. "A surprisingly simple and appealing tale of a young student's fumbling search for love among the high school set . . . at his best, [Kerouac] can give you poetic visions of the commonplace."-- The New York Times Book Review "She'd cradle my broken head in her all-healing lap that beat like a heart; my eyes hot would feel the soothe fingertips of cool, the joy, the stroke and barely-touch, the feminine sweet loss bemused inward-biting far-thinking deep earth river-mad April caress . . ." This touching novel of adolescent love and loss in a 1930s New England mill town is one of Kerouac's most poignant works. It tells the story of teenager Jack Duluoz, exploring his secret passions, his sporting prowess, and his first romance, with a beautiful Irish girl named Maggie Cassidy. Originally written in 1953, Maggie Cassidy is a remarkable, bittersweet evocation of the awkwardness and joy of growing up in America.

LC Classification NumberPS3521.E735M34 1993