Grove Press, November 2009. Trade Paperback. The legendary novel whose true events inspired the film KILL YOUR DARLINGS In the summer of 1944, a shocking murder rocked the fledgling Beats. William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, both still unknown, we inspired by the crime to collaborate on a novel, a...... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 2000. Trade Paperback. An "indispensable" (Chicago Tribune) collection of more than sixty previously unpublished works from Jack Kerouac, ranging from stories and poems to plays and excerpts of novels "Fascinating . . . provides a poignant picture of a life brimming with promise."--The Boston Globe Before Jack..... More
DENOEL, May 2000. Trade Paperback. More
Perigee Trade, 1980. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Classics, October 2016. Trade Paperback. Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition For..... More
Harvest Books, October 1983. Trade Paperback. "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. Kerouac..... More
Penguin USA, June 1994. Trade Paperback. "Vanity of Duluoz" is a key volume in Jack Kerouac's lifework, the series of autobiographical novels he referred to as "The Legend of Duluoz." With the same tender humor and intoxicating wordplay he brought to his masterpieces "On the Road" and "The Dharma Bums,"..... More
Mcgraw-hill Inc, 1974. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin USA, August 1993. Trade Paperback. "To read On the Road but not Visions of Cody is to take a nice sightseeing tour but to forgo the spectacular rapids of Jack Kerouac's wildest writings."--The New York Times Book Review "The centerpiece of all [Kerouac's] novels."--The Washington Post Originally written in..... More
Penguin USA, May 1991. Trade Paperback. The first novella in Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend, detailing the writer's early life as refracted through the prism of the untimely loss of his brother "The earliest and most heartfelt chapter of Kerouac's fictionalized autobiography."--Ann Charters "His life . . . ended when he..... More
Penguin, March 1996. Paper Back. This one-volume omnibus, planned by the author before his death and now completed by his biographer, Ann Charters, makes clear the ambition and accomplishment of Jack Kerouac's "Legend of Duluoz" - the story of his life told in the course of his many "true-story novels..... More
New York Review of Books, November 2025. Trade Paperback. The first novel by Jan Kerouac, daughter of Jack--a thrilling work of autobiographical fiction that captures with inspired detail a life driven by adventure, drugs, far-flung travel, and like her father, a relentless quest for pure experience. "If [Jack] Kerouac sometimes..... More
