Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956

This book is the first of a projected two-volume set of Kerouac's letters.

"...[P]erhaps 80 percent of the letters in this collection furnish thematic enticements into the Kerouac canon....Indeed, a fairly constant theme in both the letters and the fiction of Jack Kerouac is simply ZEST--or verve or gusto or relish: The idea is to rush forward into the experience if only to HAVE the experience." - H.U. Schmincke (Bloomsbury Review, 6/1/96)

"For those already familiar with some of Kerouac's books and interested in the man who wrote them, 'Selected Letters: 1940-1956', arranged chronologically with headnotes by Charters, will be a revelation." - Lucy Sussex (Atlantic Monthly, 8/1/95)

"Ms. Charters has selected, and meticulously annotated, nearly 200 letters written by Kerouac (along with nine written to him, principally from his mother)...Included...is a rich array of correspondence, most of it previously unpublished." - Shusui Komoda (New York Times Book Review)

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