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From the bard of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac''s Maggie Cassidy is an autobiographical novel of young love, published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Though publishers stopped Maggie Cassidy''s Jack Duluoz and On the Road''s Sal Paradise from sharing the same name, Kerouac meant the books to be two parts of the same life. While On the Road made Paradise (and Kerouac) a hero for generations to come of the disaffected and restless, Maggie Cassidy is an affectionate portrait of the teenager that made the man - of friendship and first love growing up in a New England mill town. Duluoz is a high school athletics and football star who meets Maggie Cassidy and begins a devoted, inconstant, tender adolescent love affair. It is one of the most sustained, poetic pieces of Kerouac''s ''spontaneous prose''.

Jack Kerouac (1922-69) was an American novelist, poet, artist and part of the Beat Generation. His first published novel, The Town and th

Maggie Cassidy

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 5 February 2009
      ISBN-13 9780141190037
      978-0141190037
      ISBN-10 0141190035
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      Contemporary Fiction Books by Jack Kerouac

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      From the bard of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac''s Maggie Cassidy is an autobiographical novel of young love, published in Penguin Modern Classics.

      Though publishers stopped Maggie Cassidy''s Jack Duluoz and On the Road''s Sal Paradise from sharing the same name, Kerouac meant the books to be two parts of the same life. While On the Road made Paradise (and Kerouac) a hero for generations to come of the disaffected and restless, Maggie Cassidy is an affectionate portrait of the teenager that made the man - of friendship and first love growing up in a New England mill town. Duluoz is a high school athletics and football star who meets Maggie Cassidy and begins a devoted, inconstant, tender adolescent love affair. It is one of the most sustained, poetic pieces of Kerouac''s ''spontaneous prose''.

      Jack Kerouac (1922-69) was an American novelist, poet, artist and part of the Beat Generation. His first published novel, The Town and th

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