The Town and the City. Kerouac J. Penguin

It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go - Kerouac on The Town and the City. Kerouacs 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 fathers death and gripped by determination to write the Great American Novel, he draws largely on his own New England childhood. synopsis may belong to another edition of this title.