Vanity of Duluoz
An Adventurous Education, 1935-46
by Jack Kerouac
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Editions of Vanity of Duluoz
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Penguin Group USA |
Date 1994 |
Price $6.00 |
 Good+ |
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Berkley Pub Group |
Date 1978 |
Price $5.00 |
Good |
Publisher Notes
Originally subtitled "An Adventurous Education, 1935-1946", this book is a key volume in Kerouac's lifework, the series of autobiographical novels he referred to as The Legend of Duluoz. A wonderfully unassuming look back at the origins of his career--a prehistory of the Beat era, written from the perspective of the psychedelic '60s.
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"Kerouac-Duluoz clings to youth as if the end of it were death rather than the onset of full life....[In an] atmosphere tepid with accents of Whitman, Wolfe, Saroyan, and castrated Henry Miller, assuming that whatever has happened to him is automatically valuable, the narrator retails his adventures....Any number of incidents in 'Vanity of Duluoz' seem potentially interesting. But Kerouac, not without talent, is not interested....A publisher with any real faith in the glow that occasionally generates from a page of any of Kerouac's slapdash novels would not have published this book as it stands."
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