{"product_id":"atop-an-underwood-isbn-9780140296396","title":"Atop an Underwood","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn “indispensable” (\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e) collection of more than sixty previously unpublished works from Jack Kerouac, ranging from stories and poems to plays and excerpts of novels\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Fascinating . . . provides a poignant picture of a life brimming with promise.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBefore Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his classic \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write. \u003ci\u003eAtop an Underwood \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together works that Kerouac wrote before he was twenty-two years old, including an excerpt from \u003ci\u003eThe Sea Is My Brother.\u003c\/i\u003e These writings reveal what Kerouac was thinking, doing, and dreaming during his formative years and reflect his primary literary influences, including the source of his spontaneous prose style.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eUncovering a fascinating missing link in Kerouac’s development as a writer, \u003ci\u003eAtop an Underwood \u003c\/i\u003eis essential reading for Kerouac fans, scholars, and critics alike.Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Pine Forests and Pure Thought 1936-1940\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Background\u003cbr\u003eRepulsion May Race Here in Exhibition Feature!!\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e  Football Novella\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJack Lewis's Baseball Chatter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[One Long Strange Dream]\u003cbr\u003eCount Basie's Band Best in Land; Group Famous for \"Solid\" Swing\u003cbr\u003eGo Back\u003cbr\u003eNothing\u003cbr\u003eA Play I Want to Write\u003cbr\u003eConcentration\u003cbr\u003eWe Thronged\u003cbr\u003e[A Day in September]\u003cbr\u003e[I Know I Am August]\u003cbr\u003eRadio Script: The Spirit of '14\u003cbr\u003e[I Remember the Days of My Youth]\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Raw Rookie Nerves\u003cbr\u003eWhere the Road Begins\u003cbr\u003eNew York Nite Club—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: An Original Kicker 1941\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Background\u003cbr\u003eThere's Something About a Cigar\u003cbr\u003eGod\u003cbr\u003eIf I Were Wealthy\u003cbr\u003e[One Sunday Afternoon in July]\u003cbr\u003eThe Birth of a Socialist\u003cbr\u003eNo Connection: A Novel That I Don't Intend to Finish\u003cbr\u003eOn the Porch, Remembering\u003cbr\u003eThe Sandbank Sage\u003cbr\u003eFarewell Song, Sweet from My Trees\u003cbr\u003e[I Have to Pull Up My Stakes and Roll, Man]\u003cbr\u003eOdyssey (Continued)\u003cbr\u003e[At 18, I Suddenly Discovered the Delight of Rebellion]\u003cbr\u003eObservations\u003cbr\u003eDefinition of a Poet\u003cbr\u003eAmerica in the Night\u003cbr\u003eWoman Going to Hartford\u003cbr\u003eOld Love-Light\u003cbr\u003eI Tell You It Is October!\u003cbr\u003e[Here I Am at Last with a Typewriter]\u003cbr\u003e[\u003ci\u003eAtop an Underwood\u003c\/i\u003e: Introduction]\u003cbr\u003eThe Good Jobs\u003cbr\u003eFrom Radio City to the Crown\u003cbr\u003e...The Little Cottage by the Sea...\u003cbr\u003eThe Juke Box is Saving America\u003cbr\u003e...Hartford After Work....\u003cbr\u003e...Legends and Legends....\u003cbr\u003e...A Kerouac That Turned Out Sublime....\u003cbr\u003eThe Father of My Father\u003cbr\u003eCredo\u003cbr\u003e...Hungry Young Writer's Notebook....\u003cbr\u003eA Young Writer's Notebook\u003cbr\u003e[I Am Going to Stress a New Set of Values]\u003cbr\u003e[I Am My Mother's Son]\u003cbr\u003e[Howdy!]\u003cbr\u003eToday\u003cbr\u003eThis I Do Know—\u003cbr\u003eSearch by Night\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three: To Portray Life Accurately 1942-1943\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Background\u003cbr\u003eSadness at Six\u003cbr\u003eThe Joy of Duluoz\u003cbr\u003eFamine for the Heart\u003cbr\u003e[The Very Thing I Live For]\u003cbr\u003eThe Mystery\u003cbr\u003eThinking of Thomas Wolfe on a Winter's Night\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e The Sea Is My Brother (Merchant Mariner)\u003cbr\u003eBeauty as a Lasting Truth\u003cbr\u003eMy Generation, My World\u003cbr\u003eThe Wound of Living\u003cbr\u003eWounded in Action\u003cbr\u003eThe Romanticist\u003cbr\u003eThe Boy from Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eThe Two Americans\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cb\u003eJack Kerouac\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Town and the City\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 1950, but it was \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the “Beat generation” and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them \u003ci\u003eThe Dharma Bums\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Subterraneans\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBig Sur\u003c\/i\u003e. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of “one vast book,” \u003ci\u003eThe Duluoz Legend\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305158758629,"sku":"NP9780140296396","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140296396.jpg?v=1767721925","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/atop-an-underwood-isbn-9780140296396","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}