Book of Sketches

by Jack Kerouac

Book Overview

In 1952 and 1953 as he wandered around America, Jack Kerouac jotted down spontaneous prose poems, or "sketches" as he called them, on small notebooks that he kept in his shirt pockets. The poems recount his travels--New York, North Carolina, Lowell (Massachusetts, Kerouac's birthplace), San Francisco, Denver, Kansas, Mexico--observations, and meditations on art and life. The poems are often strung together so that over the course of several of them,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0142002151
• ISBN13: 9780142002155
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.8" x 6.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher