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The sea is my brother : [the lost novel] / Jack Kerouac ; introduction by Dawn Ward.
Summary:
In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, 21-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it THE SEA IS MY BROTHER. Now, nearly 70 years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780306821257 (hc.) :
- ISBN: 0306821257 (hc.)
- Physical Description: xviii, 216 p. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Da Capo Press, c2012.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Subtitle from jacket.Originally published: London : Penguin Books, c2011.
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- Baker & Taylor
"In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother. Now, nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon. Written seven years before The Town and The City officially launched his writing career, The Sea Is My Brother marksa pivotal point in which Kerouac began laying the foundations for his pioneering method and signature style. A clear precursor to such landmark works as On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and Visions of Cody, it is an important formative work that bears all the hallmarks of classic Kerouac: the search for spiritual meaning in a materialistic world, spontaneous travel as the true road to freedom, late nights in bars and apartments engaged in intense conversation, the desperate urge to escape from society, and the strange, terrible beauty of loneliness."--from cover, p. [2] - Baker & Taylor
New acquaintances Wesley Martin, a merchant marine, and intellectual Bill Everhart discuss Tom Wolfe, jazz music, communism and loneliness on their spontaneous hitchhiking trip from New York to Boston to board the S.S. Westminster. - Baker & Taylor
The first novel written by theOn the Road author bears all the hallmarks of classic Kerouac: the search for spiritual meaning in a materialistic world, spontaneous travel as the true road to freedom, the desperate urge to escape society and the strange beauty of loneliness. - Perseus PublishingIn the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother. Now, nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon.
Written seven years before The Town and The City officially launched his writing career, The Sea Is My Brother marks a pivotal point in which Kerouac began laying the foundations for his pioneering method and signature style. A clear precursor to such landmark works as On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and Visions of Cody, it is an important formative work that bears all the hallmarks of classic Kerouac: the search for spiritual meaning in a materialistic world, spontaneous travel as the true road to freedom, late nights in bars and apartments engaged in intense conversation, the desperate urge to escape from society, and the strange, terrible beauty of loneliness.
- Perseus PublishingThe long-awaited release of On the Road author Jack Kerouacâs lost first novel, now published in North America for the first time