{"product_id":"maggie-cassidy-p-b","title":"Maggie Cassidy (Penguin Modern Classics) [2009] paperback","description":"\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","brand":"Kerouac, Jack","offers":[{"title":"Like New","offer_id":53707961270611,"sku":"XE80141190037","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46953773334867,"sku":"XV80141190037","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":42500916641977,"sku":"9780141190037","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/kerouac-jack-maggie-cassidy-penguin-modern-classics-2009-paperback-58413119865171.jpg?v=1778334409","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/maggie-cassidy-p-b","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}