{"product_id":"vanity-of-duluoz-an-adventurous-education-1935-46-9780140236392","title":"Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46","description":"\u003cb\u003eWritten in 1967 from the vantage point of the psychedelic sixties, \u003ci\u003eVanity of Duluoz \u003c\/i\u003eis a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young man\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally subtitled \"An Adventurous Education, 1935-1946,\" \u003ci\u003eVanity of Duluoz\u003c\/i\u003e presents the formative years in the life of Jack Duluoz--Kerouac's alter ego--beginning with his high school experiences as a sporting jock in small-town New England 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. The more he experiences, the more he realizes the limits of his former plans, and decides to and return to New York, where he collides with the start of the Beat movement, and a riot of drugs, sex and writing. \u003ci\u003eVanity of Duluoz\u003c\/i\u003e was Kerouac's final work published before his death in 1969.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140236392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/1994 pg. 141\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jack Kerouac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43075417276597,"sku":"9780140236392","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6758ba53-4969-42c4-883a-aa8ec0e917e0.jpg?v=1691465508","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/vanity-of-duluoz-an-adventurous-education-1935-46-9780140236392","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}