Transatlantic Review 9

1962, including Jack Kerouac, Muriel Spark and Angus Wilson

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First edition. Paperback. 23 × 15cm, 144pp.

This issue features Jack Kerouac’s 'Joan Rawshanks in the Fog'—a hallucinatory, standalone vignette that Kerouac later incorporated into his experimental masterpiece, Visions of Cody. It offers a surreal look at Hollywood artifice through the lens of a Joan Crawford film set. Alongside it is Muriel Spark’s 'Ladies and Gentlemen,' a sharp, witty display of the 'cunning tautness' that made her a dame of British letters. The issue is rounded out by the gritty, working-class poetry of Alan Sillitoe, then at the height of his 'Angry Young Man' fame following Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

Condition

There is some wear to the spine but otherwise this copy remains in good readable condition.