{"product_id":"9780140236392","title":"Vanity of Duluoz","description":"\u003cb\u003eWritten in 1967 from the vantage point of the psychedelic sixties, \u003ci\u003eVanity of Duluoz \u003c\/i\u003eis a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young man\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally subtitled \"An Adventurous Education, 1935-1946,\" \u003ci\u003eVanity of Duluoz\u003c\/i\u003e presents the formative years in the life of Jack Duluoz—Kerouac's alter ego—beginning with his high school experiences as a sporting jock in small-town New England and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Just as Jack's glamorous new adult life begins, so does World War II, and he joins the US Navy to travel the world. The more he experiences, the more he realizes the limits of his former plans, and decides to and return to New York, where he collides with the start of the Beat movement, and a riot of drugs, sex and writing. \u003ci\u003eVanity of Duluoz\u003c\/i\u003e was Kerouac's final work published before his death in 1969.","brand":"Jack Kerouac","offers":[{"title":"Penguin Publishing Group |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  1994-06-01","offer_id":44696081268991,"sku":"9780140236392","price":32.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_03ed8b6c-2718-4ea6-aa29-2902c96c8959.jpg?v=1705344793","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780140236392","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}