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Visions of Gerard: A Novel Paperback - 1991
by Jack Kerouac
- Used
- Paperback
Description
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Details
- Title Visions of Gerard: A Novel
- Author Jack Kerouac
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin (Non-Classics), E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1991-06-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # D31713
- ISBN 9780140144529 / 0140144528
- Weight 0.26 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 7.74 x 5.06 x 0.43 in (19.66 x 12.85 x 1.09 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Beat generation - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 90022198
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
"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 workds becase they'd heard his astonishing revelations of heaven delivered in catechism on no more encouragement than it was his turn to speak. . . ."
Unique among Jack Kerouac's novels, Visions of Gerard focuses on the scenes and sensations of childhoodthe wisdom, anguish, intensity, innocence, evil, insight, suffering, delight, and shockas 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.