Visions of Gerard - Jack Kerouac - Lowell, MA
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Quick Description: Jack Kerouac's 8th book, chronologically the 1st in the autobiographical narrative cycle called "The Legend of Duluoz,". "My best most serious sad and true book yet." —Jack Kerouac
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 7/27/2007 10:49:59 PM
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Long Description: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.
"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 becase they'd heard his astonishing revelations of
heaven delivered in catechism on no more encouragement than it was
his turn to speak. . . ."