Author: Jack Kerouac
Year: 1963
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9780140144529
0140144528 |
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From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List):
From the publisher
"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 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 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.
This book is part of the "Duluoz Legend" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Visions of Cody"
First published in 1972
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 | "Satori in Paris"
First published in 1967
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 | "Vanity of Duluoz"
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 | "Big Sur"
First published in 1962
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 | "Tristessa"
First published in 1960
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 | "Doctor Sax"
First published in 1959
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 | "Maggie Cassidy"
First published in 1959
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 | "The Dharma Bums"
First published in 1958
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 | "The Subterraneans"
First published in 1958
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 | "Desolation Angels"
First published in 1958
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 | "On the Road"
First published in 1955
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