Visions of Gerard : A Novel by Jack Kerouac (1991, Uk-B Format Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100140144528
ISBN-139780140144529
eBay Product ID (ePID)30202
Product Key Features
Book TitleVisions of Gerard : a Novel
Number of Pages144 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1991
TopicClassics, Family Life, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorJack Kerouac
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight4.4 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN90-022198
Reviews"Kerouac's heartfelt ode to his brother, who died young, and to his hometown of Lowell, Mass., 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." --George Saunders, The Week "Childhood death and family sorrow - the earliest and most heartfelt chapter of Kerouac's fictionalized autobiography." --Ann Charters "[T]he heart of Kerouac's mature fiction . . . [contains] depths that seem fresh, even revelatory." -- The Washington Post
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Grade ToUP
SynopsisThe first novella in Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend, detailing the writer's early life as refracted through the prism of the untimely loss of his brother "The earliest and most heartfelt chapter of Kerouac's fictionalized autobiography."--Ann Charters "His life . . . ended when he was nine and the nuns of St. Louis de France Parochial School were at his bedside to take down his dying words because they'd heard his astonishing revelations of heaven delivered in catechism on no more encouragement than it was his turn to speak." Unique among Jack Kerouac's novels, Visions of Gerard captures the scenes and sensations of earliest childhood, the first four years in the life of Ti Jean Duluoz as they unfold in the short, tragic-happy life of his brother, Gerard. Set in Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, childhood's intensity, innocence, suffering, and delight unfold as Gerard interacts with animals, has visions of Our Lady in heaven, astonishes the priest in the church confessional, and observes his family as they laugh and drink and weep--that is, when he isn't sick and confined to bed. A novel that Kerouac called "my best most serious sad and true book yet," Visions of Gerard is a beautiful, unsettling, and melancholic exploration of the meaning and precariousness of existence., "My best most serious sad and true book yet." --Jack Kerouac "His life . . . ended when he was nine and the nuns of St. Louis de France Parochial School were at his bedside to take down his dying workds becase they'd heard his astonishing revelations of heaven delivered in catechism on no more encouragement than it was his turn to speak. . . ." Unique among Jack Kerouac's novels, Visions of Gerard focuses on the scenes and sensations of childhood--the wisdom, anguish, intensity, innocence, evil, insight, suffering, delight, and shock--as they were revealed in the short tragic-happy life of his saintly brother, Gerard. Set in Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, it is an unsettling, beautiful, and sad exploration of the meaning and precariousness of existence.
LC Classification NumberPS3521.E735V47 1991
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