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Book Review of The Town and the City

The Town and the City
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Different cover, but same ISBN. This is Kerouac's first novel, said to be somewhat biographical, but then again most of JK's books are. This one is different tho, as the characters do seem more like fictionalized characters than his usual host of easily identifiable characters based on real people (who constantly reappear in different guises) in subsequent novels like On The Road. This is an excellent book, espcially for a first offering, and it's interesting in hindsight to see how Kerouac developed his style as time moved forward.