Fiction Books:

The Haunted Life

and Other Writings
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In 1944- under circumstances that remain rather mysterious- an aspiring writer named Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript title The Haunted Life , a coming-of-age story set in his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts.Kerouac set his fictional treatment of Peter Martin against the backdrop of the everyday. Peter is heading into his sophomore year at Boston College, and while home for the summer in Galloway he struggles with the pressing issues of his day- the economic crisis of the previous decade and what appears to be the impending entrance of the United States into the Second World War. The Haunted Life is rounded out by sketches, notes, and reflections Kerouac kept during the novella's composition, as well as a revealing selection of correspondence with his father, Leo Kerouac.

Author Biography:

Jack Kerouac was born in 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts. The best-known of his many works, On the Road, published in 1957, was an international bestseller. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, at the age of forty-seven.Todd F. Tietchen is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where he teaches courses in Beat writing and contemporary American literature. He is the author of The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana, along with numerous articles on American art, literature, and intellectual history.
Release date Australia
October 1st, 2015
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Edited by Jack Kerouac
  • Edited by Todd Tietchen
Country of Publication
United States
Imprint
Da Capo Press Inc
Pages
208
Publisher
Hachette Books
Dimensions
134x201x16
ISBN-13
9780306823657
Product ID
23036180

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