Visions of Gerard

Jack Kerouac First published 1963

About this book

Kerouac called this his "best most serious sad and true book yet." Kerouac weaves his later Buddhist tendencies into a memoir about his Franco-American Catholic childhood, focusing on the time leading up to the death of his beloved older brother Gerard when Jack was five years old and Gerard was nine.

Subjects

  • american fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • american literature
  • beat
  • beat generation
  • fiction