The Voice Is All The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac

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A groundbreaking portrait of Jack Kerouac’s early life and struggles, Johnson traces the development of his revolutionary writing style. Drawing on manuscript collections and letters that offer a nuanced view of Kerouac’s long gestation as a writer, Johnson shows how he developed the spontaneous prose style that would later define his career. Johnson details Kerouac's voracious reading of Thomas Wolfe, Dostoyevski, and C line; restless travels; drinking and drug use; prolific writing and revising; and socializing with fellow beats especially Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, John Clellon Holmes, and Neal Cassady kept him striving to express " the big rushing tremendousness in me and all poets.'