Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His Time

by Paul Maher Jr.

Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized by persistent hardship and disillusion. Leading Kerouac scholar Paul Maher Jr. targets the writer's embattled insight of self as central to his life and work. He reveals how Kerouac's troubled interactions with alcohol, drugs, and spirituality stamped its importance on his autobiographical prose and poetry and created a singular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158979687X
• ISBN13: 9781589796874
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.3" x 8.6"