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The Haunted Life and Other Writings written by Jack Kaerouac performed by Liev Schreiber and Luke Daniels on Audio CD (Unabridged)

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ISBN:  9781480583948
Genre - Main:  Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Modern
Duration:  300 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Jack Kaerouac
Narrator 1:  Liev Schreiber
Narrator 2:  Luke Daniels
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Jack Kerouac wrote The Haunted Life in 1944 when he was 22 years old and attending Columbia University. Originally intended as a three-part novel, only this first 20,000-word section was ever finished. Upon its completion, Kerouac promptly lost his only hand-written final draft in a New York taxi cab, remaining...

unknown to the public until its appearance at Christies about ten years ago. Kerouac's family has now decided to share this manuscript with the world.

While the entirety of the novel remained unfinished, the surviving manuscript successfully works alone as a novella with a satisfying, if open-ended, conclusion.

It features a scaled-down version of the Martin family and is set in Lowell, Massachusetts, as was Kerouac's first novel The Town and The City. Kerouac had planned on writing a cycle of novels tentatively titled.

An American Passed Here, which was to be set primarily in the fictional town of Galloway (based on Lowell). That cycle was to contain The Haunted Life and The Sea is My Brother, tracing the story of the Martin family throughout the 1930s and 1940s.

Eventually Kerouac's plans for his Martin cycle materialized into his first novel, The Town and the City, shortly before he moved on to compose his iconic On the Road.

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