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by Jack Kerouac (Author) "It was a New Year's Eve, it was snowing in the North ..." (more)
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Written in 1953, published in 1959 (after the 1957 publication of Kerouac's On the Road made him famous overnight) and long out of print, this touching novel of adolescent love in a New England mill town is one of Kerouac's most accessible works. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The gamut, Oct 12 2006
This review is from: Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
Ah, the highs and lows of the beat generation. Kerouac, THE representative of that group, is at his peak once again with MAGGIE CASSIDY. Why "On the Road" gets so much attention when books like this are so much better, is beyond me. Marketing, I suppose. MC is, for the most part, a love story, the way his "Tristessa" is, but this one centers more around the teenage years and all the foibles that come with that territory. And there are a lot. The characters seem original and fresh, even after all these years, the way McCrae's "Katzenjammer" does, or the way some of Burrough's writing is. The big reason I liked this book so much was not the story, however, but the style in which it was written. Descriptions are great, full, and fecund, and the tone is bittersweet, with a haunting quality probably due to its setting--the 1930s. I highly recommend this book, along with another great book I just read: Katzenjammer by McCrae. You can't go wrong with Kerouac, however.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An Over Looked Jem, Nov 9 2003
By William Bradford "hipster818" (Palos Park, IL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
When thinking of Jack Kerouac the first think you think about is On The Road, or the Dharma Bums. Yet this is a story that has a very personal feel to it. In some ways more so than his other stories. The basic story line is love, love lost and love that got away, yet never forgotten. I'm over simplifying, but that is what it comes down to. Clocking in at just fewer than 200 pages. Kerouac fits a lot into a short novel. On almost every page you can get a feel of Kerouac have regret for losing Maggie Cassidy. The true beauty comes from the language that Kerouac uses to describe things and people. It is really something to read the final time Kerouac and Cassidy meet. It is sad and powerful in the descriptions and the visual images that he gives that give insight to Kerouac more as a person rather than a writer. This story can best be understood from someone who is "older" in years. I say that in terms of thinking rather than actual age. Because although I am 25, at the time of this review, I can relate to the story, yet I am sure that I will relate to the story more as I get older.

This is a wonderful story that we can all relate to in some way or fashion. It is wonderful piece lit that is better than some of the garbage I reading my junior year English class, when I was in high school.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Jack's Best Kept Secret, Mar 12 2003
By Birdman (Minnetonka, MN USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
When Kerouac was good he was superb. This is young love in a glorious, mind-bending nutshell. Beautifully written and deeply felt.

When I was much younger and had experienced my first brutal betrayal in life, this novel was my greatest comfort. Kerouac had uncanny vision into the human heart, and was capable of expressing the awful paradox of young love, the joy and pain of it, it terms that were never sentimental, and often quietly heroic.

A poetic, lovely book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Kerouac at His Most Legible
This is my favorite Kerouac novel. This is a beautiful book of life recounted through a teenager's way of looking at things. Read more
Published on Jul 15 2002 by Caitlin

4.0 out of 5 stars 30's Love at It's Best
Jack Kerouac, writer of many a romantic tale; stories set out wst on roads hitchhiking, listening to jazz till 4 a.m., and just living by the moment, but not this one. Read more
Published on April 30 2002 by Zach Thomas

5.0 out of 5 stars This isnt just about teen love!
The reason this book is so captivating is due to the style in which it is written. Jack Kerouac describes his surroundings so perfectly. Read more
Published on April 8 2002

3.0 out of 5 stars Story of SWEET young love....
I read this book about 3 years ago. For whatever reason, this is the only Kerouac book i've read so far (people tend to read On the Road first, or maybe Dharma Bums). Read more
Published on Feb 10 2002 by Miss D. AwesomePants

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and sentimental
Jack's memories of young love in small town America in the 1930s. Nobody has written it better.
Published on Nov 5 2001 by Doc Savage

5.0 out of 5 stars First Love
Kerouac's autobigraphical novel Maggie Cassidy is set in his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts in 1939. It is the story of a high school romance. Read more
Published on Sep 10 2001 by Robin Friedman

3.0 out of 5 stars a "sneaky quiet sprint" through a teen love story
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. Read more
Published on Jun 15 2001 by NotATameLion

5.0 out of 5 stars An Eternity Brunette Called Night
Kerouac had a real talent for capturing the dream of life in words. When I read his books the memories and images are almost palatable. Read more
Published on April 5 2001 by B. M. White

5.0 out of 5 stars An overlooked kerouac gem
Whenever people talk of Kerouac, they're going to start talking about On the Road, The Dharma Bums or The Subterreaneans. Read more
Published on Aug 5 2000 by scorley@runet.edu

5.0 out of 5 stars A Unique Kerouac
While I am in no way a Kerouac expert--three novels (this being the third) and some of his letters written in sweaty summer nights waiting for the rest of his work to earn him a... Read more
Published on Jul 31 2000 by J. Karns

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