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Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings

Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings

Paperback

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0140296395
ISBN13: 9780140296396
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Nov 1 2000
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.08 Depth: 8.08
Language: English
An indispensable (Chicago Tribune) collection of more than sixty previously unpublished works from Jack Kerouac, ranging from stories and poems to plays and excerpts of novels

Fascinating . . . provides a poignant picture of a life brimming with promise.--The Boston Globe

Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his classic On the Road, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write. Atop an Underwood brings together works that Kerouac wrote before he was twenty-two years old, including an excerpt from The Sea Is My Brother. These writings reveal what Kerouac was thinking, doing, and dreaming during his formative years and reflect his primary literary influences, including the source of his spontaneous prose style.

Uncovering a fascinating missing link in Kerouac's development as a writer, Atop an Underwood is essential reading for Kerouac fans, scholars, and critics alike.

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