{"product_id":"kerouac-selected-letters-volume-2-1957-1969-9780140296150","title":"Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 2: 1957-1969","description":"The first volume of Jack Kerouac's selected letters, published in 1995, was hailed as an important and revealing addition to Kerouac scholarship. This second and final volume, comprising letters written between 1957, the year \u003cb\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/b\u003e was published, and the day before his death in 1969 at age forty-seven, tells Kerouac's life story through his candid correspondence with friends, confidants, and editors--among them Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Philip Whalen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joyce Johnson, and Malcolm Cowley. Documenting his continuing development as a writer and his travels, love affairs, and complicated family life, the letters also reveal Kerouac's amazing courage in the force of criticism and his never-ending quest to be the best writer possible.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJack Kerouac Selected Letters 1957-1969\u003c\/b\u003e offers unparalleled insight into the life and mind of this giant of the American landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140296150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.71h x 5.19w x 1.33d","brand":"Jack Kerouac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43971910303925,"sku":"9780140296150","price":26.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_bfd5f768-f14a-4988-b4bc-560a45d8523f.jpg?v=1713280319","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/kerouac-selected-letters-volume-2-1957-1969-9780140296150","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}