A touching autobiographical novel of adolescent love in a New England mill town, Maggie Cassidy is a remarkable, bittersweet evocation of the awkwardness and the joy of growing up in America.
Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later half xx-century, a synthesis of Proust, C line, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Genet, Thelonious Monk, Basho, Charlie Parker, and Kerouac\'s own athletic sacred insight."--Allen Gins. "Each book by Jack Kerouac in unique, a telepathic diamond ...
A touching autobiographical novel of adolescent love in a New England mill town, Maggie Cassidy is a remarkable, bittersweet evocation of the awkwardness and the joy of growing up in America