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As a writer, Kerouac is becoming more and more like the sad sack who missed the turn-off on the thruway and must now seemingly go on and on until he hits the next one. This, his latest written on the run remembrance, celebrates the short, sad, happy, holy life of Gerard, a brother who died from rheumatic fever at the age of 9 when Kerouac was 4. A sort of Alyosha-in-knickers, Gerard in his ...
23 de ago. de 2011 · Visions of Gerard by Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. Publication date 1991 Topics Beat generation Publisher New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Originally published in 1963 Access-restricted-item
Gerard was nine and Jack was four Kerouac (1922 -- 1969) wrote the book in 1956, after "On the Road" had been written but before it was published. "Visions of Gerard" was not published until 1962, when Kerouac had become famous. It received poor reviews. Set in Lowell, Massachusetts, the novel describes the last year of Gerard's life.
1 de jun. de 1991 · Visions of Gerard] has a winning simplicity and sweetness.” Washington Post Kerouac’s heartfelt ode to his brother, who died young, and to his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, always fires me up anew about the power of language, and reminds me that the highest aim of writing is to jolt us (albeit temporarily) into a more awake and uncertain state of mind.”
Visions of Gerard by Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. Publication date 1976 Topics Beat generation -- Fiction Publisher New York : McGraw-Hill Collection printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English. 151 p. : 20 cm Reprint of the ed. published by Farrar, Straus, New York
visions of gerard By Jack Kerouac. lthough Jack Kerouac's latest book purports to be a novel (one in the series he calls "The Duluoz Legend," which includes all his best-known work), so insistently does he call attention to himself in the act of writing, and so continuously intrusive is his own unmistakable voice, that we come, despite ourselves, to regard "Visions of Gerard" as an ...
Visions of Gerard. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963. First Printing. Hardcover. Charters, A19(a.), pg. 42. "...a novel unlike any other by Jack Kerouac. In it he recaptures the scenes and sensations of earliest childhood, the first four years... as they unfold in the short tragic-happy life of his brother Gerard."(front flap) The first printing (as stated) of the first edition of ...
