The Haunted Life (CD Audiobook)
Book (italiano):
<p>Jack Kerouac wrote <i>The Haunted Life</i> 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.</p><p></p><p>Kerouac’s family has now decided to share this manuscript with the world.</p><p></p><p>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 <i>The Town and The City</i>. Kerouac had planned on writing a cycle of novels tentatively titled<i>An American Passed Here</i>, which was to be set primarily in the fictional town of Galloway (based on Lowell). That cycle was to contain<i>The Haunted Life</i> and <i>The Sea is My Brother</i>, 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,<i>The Town and the City</i>, shortly before he moved on to compose his iconic <i>On the Road</i>.</p><p></p><p>Todd Tietchen, the editor of the project and the Jack Kerouac/Beat Scholar in residence at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, has assembled a number of archival documents to thicken out the context of this lost novella, documents that attest to the level of intention and care that went into Kerouac’s writing projects.</p><p></p>
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