PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS : THE TOWN AND THE CITY PB B FORMAT – JACK KEROUAC-DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go Kerouac on THE TOWN AND THE CITY Kerouac s debut novel is a great coming of age story which can be read as the essential prelude to his later classics. Inspired by grief over his father s death and gripped by determination to write the Great American Novel, he draws largely on his own New England childhood.