The Haunted Life: and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac

The Haunted Life: and Other Writings

Jack Kerouac

208 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction classics reflective sad slow-paced

Description

1944 was a troubled and momentous year for Jack Kerouac. In March, his close friend and literary confidant, Sebastian Sampas, lost his life on the Anzio beachhead while serving as a US Army medic. That spring—still reeling with grief over Sebastia...

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