Vanity of Duluoz An Adventurous Education, 1935-46

"Kerouac-Duluoz clings to youth as if the end of it were death rather than the onset of full life....[In an] atmosphere tepid with accents of Whitman, Wolfe, Saroyan, and castrated Henry Miller, assuming that whatever has happened to him is automatically valuable, the narrator retails his adventures....Any number of incidents in 'Vanity of Duluoz' seem potentially interesting. But Kerouac, not without talent, is not interested....A publisher with any real faith in the glow that occasionally generates from a page of any of Kerouac's slapdash novels would not have published this book as it stands."Kerouac, Jack is the author of 'Vanity of Duluoz An Adventurous Education, 1935-46', published 1994 under ISBN 9780140236392 and ISBN 0140236392.