The tale of Kerouac's alter-ego, Vanity of Duluoz presents Jack Duluoz's high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts 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. As Jack experiences more, he realizes the limits of his former plans and returns to New York at the start of the Beat movement, to a riot of drugs, sex and writing. Vanity of Duluoz was Kerouac's final work published before his death in 1969.
| ISBN: | 9780141198217 |
| Publication date: | 1st March 2012 |
| Author: | Jack Kerouac |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 257 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
The tale of Kerouac's alter-ego, Vanity of Duluoz presents Jack Duluoz's high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts 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. As Jack experiences more, he realizes the limits of his former plans and returns to New York at the start of the Beat movement, to a riot of drugs, sex and writing. Vanity of Duluoz was Kerouac's final work published before his death in 1969.
Vanity of Duluoz features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Vanity of Duluoz is available in Paperback, Ebook
Vanity of Duluoz was written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Vanity of Duluoz has 257 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Modern Classics series
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