Visions of Gerard

Description:

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: Beat generation,  Fiction,  beat,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  American literature

Places: Lowell,  MA