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Maggie Cassidy

From the bard of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac`s Maggie Cassidy is an autobiographical novel of young love, published in Penguin Modern Classics.Though publishers stopped `Maggie Cassidy`s Jack Duluoz and `On the Road`s Sal Paradise from sharing the same name, Kerouac meant the books to be two parts of the same life. While `On the Road` made Paradise (and Kerouac) a hero for generations to come of the disaffected and restless, `Maggie Cassidy` is an affectionate portrait of the teenager that made the man – of friendship and first love growing up in a New England mill town. Duluoz is a high school athletics and football star who meets Maggie Cassidy and begins a devoted, inconstant, tender adolescent love affair. It is one of the most sustained, poetic pieces of Kerouac`s `spontaneous prose`.