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Vanity of Duluoz
- Author
- Jack Kerouac
- Narrator
- Andrew Eiden
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 17 December 2024
- Run Time
- 8 hours 23 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Written in 1967 from the vantage point of the psychedelic sixties, Vanity of Duluoz is a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young man.
This book presents the formative years in the life of Jack Duluoz—Kerouac’s alter ego—beginning with his high school experiences as a sporting jock in small-town New England and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Just as Jack’s glamorous new adult life begins, so does World War II, and he joins the US Navy to travel the world. The more he experiences, the more he realizes the limits of his former plans and decides to and return to New York, where he collides with the start of the Beat movement—and a riot of drugs, sex, and writing. Vanity of Duluoz was Kerouac’s final work published before his death in 1969.
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“The capstone of one of the most extraordinary, influential, maddening, and ultimately prodigious achievements in recent literature.”
John Clellon Holmes, author of Go
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Details
- Author
- Jack Kerouac
- Narrator
- Andrew Eiden
- Duration
- 8 hours 23 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 December 2024
- ISBN
- 9798212234054
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Biographical fiction, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
Written in 1967 from the vantage point of the psychedelic sixties, Vanity of Duluoz is a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young man.This book presents the formative years in the life of Jack Duluoz—Kerouac’s alter ego—beginning with his high school experiences as a sporting jock in small-town New England and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Just as Jack’s glamorous new adult life begins, so does World War II, and he joins the US Navy to travel the world. The more he experiences, the more he realizes the limits of his former plans and decides to and return to New York, where he collides with the start of the Beat movement—and a riot of drugs, sex, and writing. Vanity of Duluoz was Kerouac’s final work published before his death in 1969.
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