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10 de jul. de 2009 · Visions of Gerard is Kerouac’s prolonged meditation on his older, saintly brother Gerard, who died at the age of nine (Jack was four at the time) of rheumatic fever. As the cornerstone of the Dulouz legend, Visions of Gerard, along with Maggie Cassidy and Dr. Sax, deals with Kerouac’s early life in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Visions of Gerard: A Novel - Ebook written by Jack Kerouac. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Visions of Gerard: A Novel.
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.
- Jack Kerouac
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 ...
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.
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 ...
