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Loading... Visions of Gerard (1963)by Jack Kerouac
This is my favorite Kerouac book I have read so far. It is a hauntingly beautiful autobiographical look at Kerouac as a young boy, growing up with his sickly brother, Gerard. This is a heartbreaking attempt to document an event through the eyes of a child. (  ) Laura_Green | Oct 7, 2012 |  The first book of Kerouac's fictionalized autobiography to be published was the one to become his legacy - On the Road. But Visions of Gerard is his best book, if not in terms of his writing, at least in its emotional impact. The book tells the story of his French-speaking family in Lowell, MA, when he was only 5 and his sickly brother died at age 9. An amazing blend of Catholic upbringings with Buddhist influences superimposed, Visions of Gerard gives us two saints lost - Gerard himself, and the man that Jack wanted to be but never could. If you like Kerouac, read this and know Kerouac a little better. ( )2  jmontibello | Jul 21, 2010 | Visions of Gerard: A Novel by Jack Kerouac (1991)  Francostudies | Feb 5, 2009 | Kerouac is not for me. (  ) mashley | Apr 14, 2007 | no reviews | add a review
 No descriptions found. "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."--P. 4 of cover.… (more) |
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