{"product_id":"9781101601068","title":"The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac","description":"\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking portrait of Kerouac as a young artist—from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eMinor Characters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Voice is All\u003c\/i\u003e, Joyce Johnson, author of her classic memoir, \u003ci\u003eDoor Wide Open\u003c\/i\u003e, about her relationship with Jack Kerouac, brilliantly peels away layers of the Kerouac legend to show how, caught between two cultures and two languages, he forged a voice to contain his dualities.  Looking more deeply than previous biographers into how Kerouac’s French Canadian background enriched his prose and gave him a unique outsider’s vision of America, she  tracks his development from boyhood through the phenomenal breakthroughs of 1951 that resulted in the composition of \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, followed by \u003ci\u003eVisions of Cody\u003c\/i\u003e. By illuminating Kerouac’s early choice to sacrifice everything to his work, \u003ci\u003eThe Voice Is All\u003c\/i\u003e deals with him on his own terms and puts the tragic contradictions of his nature and his complex relationships into perspective.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120888987888,"sku":"9781101601068","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101601068_p0.jpg?v=1763688410","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101601068","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}