Johnson, who knew Kerouac on a deep intimate level shows how despite being caught between two cultures and two languages, he forged a voice to contain his dualities. She shows how Kerouac’s French Canadian background enriched his prose and gave him a unique outsider’s vision of America. Tracking his development from boyhood through his breakthroughs in 1951 that resulted in writing On the Road, followed by Visions of Cody deepens our understanding of the “lonely” life of Kerouac.
The Voice is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac by Joyce Johnson
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Paperback, Published by Penquin, 2013, 512 pages
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Johnson, who knew Kerouac on a deep intimate level shows how despite being caught between two cultures and two languages, he forged a voice to contain his dualities. She shows how Kerouac’s French Canadian background enriched his prose and gave him a unique outsider’s vision of America. Tracking his development from boyhood through his breakthroughs in 1951 that resulted in writing On the Road, followed by Visions of Cody deepens our understanding of the “lonely” life of Kerouac.
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