#the town and the city

[swampcrystal]

"If on some soft odorous April night the twelve-year-old (...) she considers the horrid legend of life, and broods as she returns slowly to her family's house

— be sure that the darkness and terror of twelve-years-old will come to womanly days of ripe warm sunshine. "

[don-lichterman]

The Town and the City album review @ All About Jazz

The Town and the City album review @ All About Jazz

Album Review By Bruce Lindsay July 16, 2022 Sign in to view read count Saxophonist Matt Anderson grew up on the North Yorkshire Moors, in the north of England, and is now based in London where he teaches junior jazz ensembles at the Royal Academy of Music. The Town and the City is his third album—the title a nod to his years in the small towns and villages of the Moors, and his later move to…

[elizabethanism]

When all of the family was stilled in sleep, when the streetlamp a few paces from the house shone at night and made grotesque shadows of the trees upon the house, when the river sighed off into the darkness, when the trains hooted on their way to Montreal far upriver, when the winds swished in the soft treeleaves and something knocked and rattled on the old barn, you could stand in the road and look at this home and know that there is nothing more haunting than a house at night when the family is asleep, something strangely tragic, something beautiful forever.

Jack Kerouac, The Town and the City

[watchoutforintellect]

Will you love me in December as you do in May?

Jack Kerouac - from The Town and the City

[berlinermauernblog]

(via 06205)

[quotespile]

He had never felt anything like that before -- yet somehow he knew that from now on he would always feel like that, always, and something caught at his throat as he realized what a strange sad adventure life might get to be, strange and sad and still much more beautiful and amazing than he could ever have imagined because it was so really, strangely sad.

Jack Kerouac, The Town and the City

[books0977]

The Town and the City. Jack Kerouac. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, (1950). First edition. Original dust jacket.

“When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices of everybody he had known, were crying: "Peter, Peter! Where are you going, Peter?" And a big soft gust of rain came down. He put up the collar of his jacket, and bowed his head, and hurried along.”

[macrolit]

Spotlight on Jack Kerouac

[amargedom]

Will you love me in December as you do in May?

Jack Kerouac, The Town and the City 

[beatdom]

66TH ANNIVERSARY OF ‘THE TOWN AND THE CITY’

On display at the Beat Museum is this 1950 advance copy of The Town and the City, once the circulation copy at the Lowell City Library (now the Pollard Memorial Library). Advance copies are sent out to reviewers, critics, and the press prior to a novel’s publication, in a bid to generate public interest in the book. This particular copy was one of probably only 20-50 advance copies. It is very possible this book was given by Kerouac himself to his hometown library. This copy was a gift from collector Richard Marcell.

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[jazzcatjack]

…there is nothing more haunting than a house at night when the family is asleep, something strangely tragic, something beautiful forever.

Jack Kerouac, The Town and the City

[gaivotaa]

Will you love me in December as you do in May?

Jack Kerouac “The Town and the City”

[vaguelykyle]

He had never felt anything like that before - yet somehow he knew that from now on he would always feel like that, always, and something caught at his throat as he realized what a strange sad adventure life might get to be, strange and sad and still much more beautiful and amazing than he could ever have imagined because it was so really, strangely sad.

The Town and The City, by Jack Kerouac

[metaphorformetaphor]

To all his friends and to his family he was just Joe-robust, happy-go-lucky, always up to something. But to himself he was just someone abandoned, lost, really forgotten by something, something majestic and beautiful that he saw in the world.

— Jack Kerouac, from The Town and the City (Mariner Books, 1970)

[beatdom]

Kerouac Coming to Kindle

On March 22nd, 2016, six of Jack Kerouac’s books will be available as ebooks for the first time. These include his first novel, The Town and the City. The aptly named Open Road Media has acquired the rights to digitally publish this and other books by the author. The Town and the City was originally published in 1950 by Harcourt Brace. The author was listed as “John Kerouac” and the story followed the life of young Peter Martin, based on Kerouac himself. Seven years later, Kerouac became a household name after his second novel, On the Road, was published.

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