The Town and the City: Jack Kerouac

`It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go` Kerouac on The Town and the City Kerouac`s debut novel is a great coming of age story which can be read as the essential prelude to his later classics. Inspired by grief over his father`s death and gripped by determination to write the Great American Novel, he draws largely on his own New England childhood.