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The tale of Kerouac''s alter-ego, Vanity of Duluoz presents Jack Duluoz''s high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts 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. As Jack experiences more, he realizes the limits of his former plans and returns to New York at the start of the Beat movement, to a riot of drugs, sex and writing. Vanity of Duluoz was Kerouac''s final work published before his death in 1969.

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Vanity of Duluoz

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/03/2012
      ISBN13: 9780141198217, 978-0141198217
      ISBN10: 0141198214

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The tale of Kerouac''s alter-ego, Vanity of Duluoz presents Jack Duluoz''s high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts 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. As Jack experiences more, he realizes the limits of his former plans and returns to New York at the start of the Beat movement, to a riot of drugs, sex and writing. Vanity of Duluoz was Kerouac''s final work published before his death in 1969.

      Trade Review
      A loud-mouthed novel... A frontal assault on life, a total abandonment to feeling * Guardian *

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