num_pages: 194
description: From the bard of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Maggie Cassidy is a profoundly moving, autobiographical novel of adolescence and first loveOne of the dozen books written by Jack Kerouac in the early and mid-1950s, Maggie Cassidy was not published until 1959, after the appearance of On the Road 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.
language: English
title: Maggie Cassidy
titlecomplete: Maggie Cassidy
genres: 20th Century, American, Coming Of Age, Novels, American Fiction, Literature, Classics, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 5023
places: Lowell, Massachusetts
series: Duluoz Legend
publisher: Penguin Books