The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
By Joyce Johnson
Read by Carrington MacDuffie
Unabridged
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ISBN: 9798200078103
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ISBN: 9798200078110
| Runtime: | 16.84 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
In The Voice Is All, Joyce Johnson—coauthor of the classic memoir Door Wide Open, about her relationship with Jack Kerouac—brilliantly peels away layers of the Kerouac legend to show how, caught between two cultures and two languages, he forged a voice to contain his dualities. Looking more deeply than previous biographers into how Kerouac's French Canadian background enriched his prose and gave him a unique outsider's vision of America, she tracks his development from boyhood through the phenomenal breakthroughs of 1951 that resulted in the composition of On the Road, followed by Visions of Cody. By illuminating Kerouac's early choice to sacrifice everything for his work, The Voice Is All deals with him on his own terms and puts the tragic contradictions of his nature and his complex relationships into perspective.Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Johnson knows how to create suspense and weave the complex lives of her characters into a narrative that rumbles along…Her own voice is eloquent, her prose clear and crisp.” —San Francisco Chronice
“An intimate of Kerouac who has chronicled his life and the beat culture, Johnson brings an insider’s perspective to this insightful study of how Kerouac found his literary voice…Johnson excels in her colorful, candid assessment of this evolution of this voice.” —Publishers Weekly
“An exemplary biography of the Beat icon and his development as a writer…There’s plenty of life in these pages to fascinate casual readers, and Johnson is a sensitive but admirably objective biographer. A triumph of scholarship.” —Kirkus Reviews
This is quite simply the best book about Kerouac and one of the best accounts of any writer's apprenticeship that I have read. —Russell Banks
Author
Author Bio: Joyce Johnson
Joyce Johnson is the author of several books, including the National Book Critics Circle Award–winner Minor Characters. She has written for Vanity Fair and the New Yorker and lives in New York City.
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| Available Formats : | Retail CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography |
| Runtime: | 16.84 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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