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Article: Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant.(Book Review)
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- June 1, 2003
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Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant. By Aurelie Sheehan. Normal, Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press, 2001. $11.95
"Have you ever rubbed up against a person and come away smudged and liquid with the testy perfume of oils, the fantastically hopeful raw material?" In this sentence from "The Dove," one of fifteen stories in Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant, Aurelie Sheehan could be referring to the experience of reading her first book. Organic and sensual, heady with description and palpable as wet paint, Sheehan's work draws the reader into each story's lyrical, tragic, and often bitterly funny world.
Sheehan's stories center on women struggling out of imposed roles, looking for ...