In 1944, twenty-two year old Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length
manuscript called&,nbsp,The Haunted Life. It turned up thirteen
years later in a Columbia University dormitory, and then in 2002,
at a Sotheby's auction house. Now, 70 years after Kerouac wrote it,
his second novel will be published for the first time.The Haunted
Life&,nbsp,is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a
college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be
one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home
town. But with the war escalating in Europe and his two closest
friends both plotting their escapes, he realises how sheltered his
upbringing has been. As he surveys the competing influences of his
youth, he struggles to determine what might lead to an
intellectually authentic life.The Haunted Life&,nbsp,is
ultimately a meditation on intellectual truth, male friendship and
the desire for movement - all themes that would dominate Kerouac's
later work.
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