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Maggie Cassidy

<b>From the bard of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's <i>Maggie Cassidy</i> is a profoundly moving, autobiographical novel of adolescence and first love<br><br></b>One of the dozen books written by Jack Kerouac in the early and mid-1950s, <i>Maggie Cassidy </i>was not published until 1959, after the appearance of <i>On the Road</i> had made its author famous overnight. Long out of print, this touching novel of adolescent love in a New England mill town, with its straight-forward narrative structure, is one of Kerouac's most accesible works. It is a remarkable, bittersweet evocation of the awkwardness and the joy of growing up in America.