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The Town and the City
The Town and the City | Jack Kerouac
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The town is Galloway in Massachusetts, birthplace of the five sons and three daughters of the Martin family in the early 1900s. The city is New York, the vast and heaving melting pot, which lures them all in search of futures and identity. Nearly a decade before the publication of On the Road, the story of the Martins' epic transformation in The Town and the Citymarked the first true literary impact of the founding father of the Beat Generation. Inspired by grief over his father's death, and his own determination to write the Great American Novel, The Town and the Cityis an essential prelude to Jack Kerouac's later classics.
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UglyOldBat
The Town and the City | Jack Kerouac
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Nothing I can say will do justice to this wonderful book. Brilliant. 🙌

#families #newyork

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UglyOldBat
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#catsoflitsy

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Leftcoastzen
The Town and the City | Jack Kerouac
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youneverarrived Great collection 😍 7y
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Redwritinghood
The Town and the City | Jack Kerouac
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[J]ust because the weekend began at eight o'clock sharp on Saturday morning did not mean that it could be quite so mysteriously enjoyable as the Friday night anticipation of that beginning. There was something about Friday night that none of them could deny. It was richer, more leisurely . . . There was no rush, no losing one's head, no sinking feeling that it was all slipping away in the hour-glass of day. #greatquotes #somethingforsept

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