- Beat generation, Fiction, beat, American fiction (fictional works by one author)
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.
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- Author
- Jack Kerouac
- First published
- 1963
- Pages
- 151
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill, Farrar, Straus, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780070342040
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Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian ancestry. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements.
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