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Vanity of Duluoz

An Adventurous Education, 1935–46

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Vanity of Duluoz

By: Jack Kerouac
Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
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Written in 1967 from the vantage point of the psychedelic sixties, Vanity of Duluoz is a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young man.

This book 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. Vanity of Duluoz was Kerouac’s final work published before his death in 1969.

©1967, 1968 Jack Kerouac (P)2024 Blackstone Publishing
Coming of Age Literary Fiction

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