Joyce Johnson. (2012). The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc.

Joyce Johnson. 2012. The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac. Tantor Media, Inc.

Joyce Johnson, The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac. Tantor Media, Inc, 2012.

Joyce Johnson. The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc, 2012.

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In The Voice Is All, Joyce Johnson-coauthor of the 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 prose and gave him a unique outsider's vision of America, she tracks his development from boyhood through the phenomenal breakthroughs of 1951 that resulted in the composition of On the Road, followed by Visions of Cody. By illuminating Kerouac's early choice to sacrifice everything for his work, The Voice Is All deals with him on his own terms and puts the tragic contradictions of his nature and his complex relationships into perspective.

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     Starred review from July 9, 2012
     An intimate of Kerouac who has chronicled his life and the beat culture (including in her award-winning 1983 memoir, Minor Characters), Johnson brings an insider’s perspective to this insightful study of how Kerouac found his literary voice. Delving into his formative years, she paints a portrait of the artist as a sensitive young man, haunted from age four by the death of his older brother, Gerard, and hampered by his family’s frequent moves. In her most novel analysis, Johnson asserts that growing up speaking joual in his insular French-Canadian household fostered an unwieldy internal translation process whereby Kerouac “had to figure out how to capture his ‘simultaneous impressions’ in English.” Kerouac’s voracious reading of Thomas Wolfe, Dostoyevski, and Céline; restless travels; drinking and drug use; prolific writing and revising; and socializing with fellow beats—especially Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, John Clellon Holmes, and Neal Cassady—kept him striving to express “‘the big rushing tremendousness in me and all poets.’” In unsparing detail, Johnson depicts Kerouac’s contradictions and self-destructive tendencies, and the recklessness of certain relationships that impeded as much as they facilitated the discovery of his true voice. Johnson excels in her colorful, candid assessment of the evolution of this voice—up through the genesis of On the Road—the point where most other appraisals of Kerouac begin. Agent: Irene Skolnick, Irene Skolnick Literary Agency.

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