{"product_id":"9780141190037-maggie-cassidy","title":"Maggie Cassidy","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA tale of teenage romance in New England. It features the story of Jack and Maggie who are in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to marriage with hope and trepidation. It captures the intensity and the ordinariness of adolescent life, with its torments and complications. It also discusses about growing up in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the bard of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's \u003ci\u003eMaggie Cassidy \u003c\/i\u003eis an autobiographical novel of young love, published in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough publishers stopped \u003ci\u003eMaggie Cassidy's\u003c\/i\u003e Jack Duluoz and \u003ci\u003eOn the Road's\u003c\/i\u003e Sal Paradise from sharing the same name, Kerouac meant the books to be two parts of the same life. While \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e made Paradise (and Kerouac) a hero for generations to come of the disaffected and restless, \u003ci\u003eMaggie Cassidy\u003c\/i\u003e is an affectionate portrait of the teenager that made the man - of friendship and first love growing up in a New England mill town. Duluoz is a high school athletics and football star who meets Maggie Cassidy and begins a devoted, inconstant, tender adolescent love affair. It is one of the most sustained, poetic pieces of Kerouac's 'spontaneous prose'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJack Kerouac (1922-69) was an American novelist, poet, artist and part of the Beat Generation. His first published 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, that made Kerouac famous. Publication of his many other books followed, among them \u003ci\u003eThe Subterraneans\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBig Sur\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Dharma Bums\u003c\/i\u003e. Kerouac died in Florida at the age of forty-seven.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eMaggie Cassidy\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like Kerouac's \u003ci\u003eThe Subterraneans and Pic\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A very unique cat - a French Canadian Hinayana Buddhist Beat Catholic savant' Allen Ginsberg\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30341062295649,"sku":"9780141190037","price":9.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32336062.jpg?v=1737186832","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141190037-maggie-cassidy","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}