Visions of Gerard
$20.32
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2020
Summary
A devastating semi-autobiographical novel and the first volume of Kerouac’s memoir cycle
Gerard Duluoz was born in 1917, ‘a sickly little kid with a rheumatic heart’. Based on Jack Kerouac’s memories of the beloved older brother who died when he was a boy, Visions of Gerard is unique among his novels for its dreamlike evocation of the sensations of childhood - wisdom, anguish, intensity, innocence, joy and pain. Described by Kerouac as ‘my most serious sad and true book’, it forms the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241389010 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241389011 |
| Author: | Jack Kerouac |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2020 |
| Weight: | 92g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 7mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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My best most serious sad and true book yet.
My best most serious sad and true book yet. – Jack Kerouac
About The Author
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at the age of seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called ‘spontaneous prose’. He used this technique to record the life of the American ‘traveler’ and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably in On the Road and also in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His other works include Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Tristessa and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues. Jack Kerouac died in 1969.
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