{"product_id":"9781101548431","title":"Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46","description":"Originally subtitled \"An Adventurous Education, 1935-1946,\" \u003cb\u003eVanity of Duluoz\u003c\/b\u003e is a key volume in Jack Kerouac's lifework, the series of autobiographical novels he referred to as \u003cb\u003eThe Legend of Duluoz\u003c\/b\u003e.  With the same tender humor and intoxicating wordplay he brought to his masterpieces \u003cb\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Dharma Bums\u003c\/b\u003e, Kerouac takes his alter ego from the football fields of small-town New England to the playing fields and classrooms of Horace Mann and Columbia, out to sea on a merchant freighter plying the sub-infested waters of the North Atlantic during World War II, and back to New York, where his friends are the writers who would one day become known as the Beat generation and where he published his first novel.\u003cp\u003eWritten in 1967 from the vantage point ot the psychedelic sixties, \u003cb\u003eVanity of Duluoz\u003c\/b\u003e gives a fascinating portrait of the young Kerouac, dedicated and disciplined in his determination from an early age to be an important American writer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120757129456,"sku":"9781101548431","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101548431_p0.jpg?v=1763687849","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101548431","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}