The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac

by Joyce Johnson

Book Overview

A groundbreaking portrait of Kerouac as a young artist--from the award-winning author of Minor Characters In The Voice is All , Joyce Johnson, author of her classic memoir, Door Wide Open , about her relationship with Jack Kerouac, brilliantly peels away layers of the Kerouac legend to show how, caught between two cultures and two languages, he forged a voice to contain his dualities.? Looking more deeply than previous biographers into how Kerouac's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670025100
• ISBN13: 9780670025107
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 489 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"