The Voice Is All

A groundbreaking portrait of Kerouac as a young artist—from the award-winning author of Minor Characters In The Voice is All , Joyce Johnson, author of her classic memoir, Door Wide Open , 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 pr