01. 1994 Get Textbooks on Google Play Rent and save from the world's largest eBookstore. It was listed as the book about "football, war and murder" and while I'm no big fan of football I figured what the hell and decided to read it anyway. Vanity of Duluoz First Edition, 1968 $ 300.00 Jack Kerouac Hardcover Book in excellent condition, light yellowing at edges of cover. Start by marking Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 as Want to Read: Error rating book. So much more about American football than I remember from my first read, perhaps because I now understand what he is talking about! This doesn't mean 'copying' them, it means just being influenced and inspired by the words Kerouac said and wanted the world to know, if. Quite a charming book. ", Kerouac often based his fictional characters on friends and family. 2 stars because the parts about his football career were interesting, but otherwise, yeesh. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet. Vanity of Duluoz is like its little brother, the last novel that Kerouac released before he died in 1969, due to an internal hemorrhage caused by cirrhosis (from a lifetime of heavy, heavy drinking) along with complications caused by Go to Google Play Now 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. Really the last of Kerouac's books, which takes a look back at his football youth in Lowell, his time at Columbia and in the Merchant Marines and with a detour into his life with Burroughs and helping Lucian Carr dispose of a murderous Boy Scout knife on 125th Street. Also, he got me interested in American writers of the first half of the 20th century. Vanity of Duluoz was Kerouac's final work published before his death in 1969. I felt it was a bit too choppy in places, he seemed to be skimming through his descriptions and all the scenes were too short. Boring and uninspired. I could imagine him half-drunk, composing these short rough chapters of memory. Kerouac's greatest hits, but written from a more mature and nostalgic viewpoint. The book describes the adventures of Kerouac's alter ego, Jack Duluoz, covering the period of This doesn't mean 'copying' them, it means just being influenced and inspired by the words Kerouac said and wanted the world to know, if for the sake of merely getting it out of himself or actually trying to say and teach others something, that I don't know, but for me the important things's that he ALWAYS has some kind of impact on me, smaller or bigger. I believe this was the last novel Kerouac published during his lifetime, and he had drunk much of his talent away, as well as turned his back on the counterculture that he did much to inspire. 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