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Jack Kerouac wrote The Haunted Life in 1944 when he was 22 years old and attending Columbia University. Originally intended as a three-part novel, only this first 20,000-word section was ever finished. Upon its completion, Kerouac promptly lost his only hand-written final draft in a New York taxi cab, remaining unknown to the public until its appearance at Christies about ten years ago.
Kerouac’s family has now decided to share this manuscript with the world.
While the entirety of the novel remained unfinished, the surviving manuscript successfully works alone as a novella with a satisfying, if open-ended, conclusion. It features a scaled-down version of the Martin family and is set in Lowell, Massachusetts, as was Kerouac’s first novel The Town and The City. Kerouac had planned on writing a cycle of novels tentatively titled An American Passed Here, which was to be set primarily in the fictional town of Galloway (based on Lowell). That cycle was to contain The Haunted Life and The Sea is My Brother, tracing the story of the Martin family throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Eventually Kerouac’s plans for his Martin cycle materialized into his first novel, The Town and the City, shortly before he moved on to compose his iconic On the Road.
Todd Tietchen, the editor of the project and the Jack Kerouac/Beat Scholar in residence at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, has assembled a number of archival documents to thicken out the context of this lost novella, documents that attest to the level of intention and care that went into Kerouac’s writing projects.
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More than 60 years ago, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, two novice writers at the dawn of their careers, sat down to write a novel about the summer of 1944, when one of their friends killed another in a moment of brutal and tragic bloodshed. Alternating chapters, they pieced together a hard-boiled tale of bohemian New York during World War II, full of drugs and obsession, art and violence.
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Pre-Beat Lit, instant classic!
- De Jeffrey A. Pierce en 08-20-09
De: Jack Kerouac, y otros
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Naked Lunch
- The Restored Text
- De: William S. Burroughs
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the 20th century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New York, Tangiers, and, ultimately, a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone.
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Delightful rendition
- De csk en 10-11-12
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Mexico City Blues
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Duración: 2 h y 30 m
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A long poem in Kerouac’s freewheeling and spontaneous improvisational style, Mexico City Blues is a unique epic of sound, rhythm, and religion. Called superb sensory meditations, the poetry takes in life, death, and spirituality but roams widely across continents and cultures. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are all lyrically combined in the loose format inspired by jazz and the blues.
De: Jack Kerouac
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On the Road
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- De: Jack Kerouac
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouac’s classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be “beat” and has inspired generations of writers, musicians, artists, poets, and seekers who cite their discovery of the book as the event that “set them free”.
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My Favorite Narration and a Wonderful Book
- De Guillermo en 09-17-09
De: Jack Kerouac
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Haunted Life
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- Asmarranda
- 04-21-21
Liev Schreiber should read more
The book is better than I thought it would be. Liev Schreiber should read more.
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- Carl A. Gallozzi
- 03-21-19
Early Kerouac - Lowell, Ma. - shows brilliance
Disclaimer: "The Haunted Life" is the first work by Jack Kerouac that I've ever read - much less reviewed.
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Galloway is Lowell, Ma.
A simple, yet rich & complex story about "growing up (and out)" from Lowell, Ma - right before WW II. The characters each represent different life and political philosophies. The father represents the very Conservative voices of the time (Novel written in 1944 - but published in 2014) represented by the view of Father Charles Coughlin. In the Father's introductory monologue - many of the ideas mentioned resonate today with those who are politically Conservative - and through the appropriatea Conservative news outlets.
Other characters represent wanderlust - getting out of Lowell, Ma. and ...."seeing the world as a romantic artist and adventurer with the U.S. Army.
The title comes from the idea that two of Kerouac's friends were killed in WWII - and that their loss - has "haunted" Kerouac.
A theme is also how WW II has transformed nearly everyone and everything - and this transformation was just becoming visible.
This is an "early Kerouac" work - it seems to indicate that his (Kerouac's) concerns to be expressed during his "beat era" - had their beginnings during the Great Depression and WW II.
Great writing - dealing with the "tensions of the day" - a harbinger of the greater writing yet to come.
Carl Gallozzi
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- Gary Ghirardi
- 01-23-22
An honest man is a failure by most measures.
This book seems more like a montage of images that mirror the times we are experiencing now in 2022, maybe all times, struggling to define what it means to be an American, at least the imperious ones.
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