The haunted life and other writings

"In late 1944, under rather mysterious circumstances, aspiring writer Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript titled The Haunted Life. Set in Galloway, a fictionalized version of Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin-a character based on the autho...

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Main Author: Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969
Other Authors: Tietchen, Todd F.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Da Capo Press, a member of Perseus Books Group, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • I. The Haunted Life
  • II. Sketches & Reflections
  • For The Haunted Life: The Odyssey of Peter Martin
  • For The Haunted Life
  • Post-Fatalism
  • Notes on Galloway
  • The Dream, the Conversation, and the Deed
  • There's No Use Denying It
  • Outline of Subsequent Synopsis: The Town and the City
  • The Town and the City Conclusions
  • III. Jack & Leo Kerouac
  • Letters by Leo Kerouac, 1942-1943
  • A Sketch of Gerard (1942): by Leo Kerouac
  • A Sketch of Nashua and Lowell (1942): by Leo Kerouac
  • 1945 Diary Entry by Jack Kerouac
  • An Example of Non-Spontaneous Deliberated Prose (1954) by Jack Kerouac
  • 1963 Reflection on Leo by Jack Kerouac.