Maggie Cassidy
by Jack Kerouac
Beat generationCity and town lifeFictionFiction in EnglishFrench Canadians
3.4
Open LibraryAbout this book
Maggie Cassidy tells the story of Jean and Maggie, a couple of girls in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to marriage with hope and trepidation whilst trying to mature in a New England mill town in the 1950s.
Themes & subjects
Beat generationCity and town lifeFictionFiction in EnglishFrench CanadiansLove in adolescence
Setting
MassachusettsNew England1938-1939
About the author
Jack Kerouac
12 March 1922 – 21 October 1969
Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian ancestry. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements.
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