Jack Kerouac, the youngest of three children in a French-Canadian family was born in 1922 in Lowell,Massachusetts. Having left college, he joined the merchant marines and began the restless wanderings that were to continue for the greater part of his life. He is one of the most controversial and best-known writers of his time. His first novel, The Town and the City, followed by his many other books like The Subterraneans, Doctor Sax and Desolation Angels, and more made him more popular. Jack Kerouac died in St. Petersburg, Florida at the age of forty-seven.
"Maggie Cassidy" is the love interest of a teenage boy growing up in Lowell, MA. The base is a basic adolescent love story in a New England mill town. The young narrator is active in sports, hangs out with his friends, and daydreams of being with Maggie -- his love interest.
At the beginning of the story, Young and loveable, Jack Dulouz experiences all the trembling of fear, anxiety and delight as he dreams of making it -- as a football star, and with Maggie Cassidy, his high school sweetheart. He met her at the New Year's Eve Dance at the Rex Ballroom, which makes him crazy about her. But at eighteen, a year older than him, she's giving him a lot of trouble with her capricious sexuality.
In short, this book unfolds the story of Jack and Maggie, in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to marriage with hope and anxiety, is told with touching simplicity. It skillfully captures both the intensity and the ordinariness of adolescent life, with its torments and complications and is a beautiful evocation of growing up in America. So did the Romeo fulfill his dreams as a football star? And did he thread himself with his love?
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