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Title: The Voice is All
Subtitle: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
Author: Joyce Johnson
Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-13-12
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 16 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians
Publisher's Summary:
In The Voice Is All, Joyce Johnson - coauthor of the classic memoir Door Wide Open, about her relationship with Jack Kerouac - brilliantly peels away layers of the Kerouac legend to show how, caught between two cultures and two languages, he forged a voice to contain his dualities. Looking more deeply than previous biographers into how Kerouac's French Canadian background enriched his prose and gave him a unique outsider's vision of America, she tracks his development from boyhood through the phenomenal breakthroughs of 1951 that resulted in the composition of On the Road, followed by Visions of Cody.
By illuminating Kerouac's early choice to sacrifice everything for his work, The Voice Is All deals with him on his own terms and puts the tragic contradictions of his nature and his complex relationships into perspective.
Critic Reviews:
"This is quite simply the best book about Kerouac and one of the best accounts of any writer's apprenticeship that I have read." (Russell Banks)
