Jack Kerouac: Visions Of Cody, Visions Of Gerard, Big Sur

Description

The Library of America's edition of the writings of Jack Kerouac opens with Visions of Cody, the ground-breaking work originally written in the early 1950s and published posthumously in 1972, in which Kerouac first treats the material later immortalised in On the Road. Visions of Gerard (1963) is a deeply moving meditation on Kerouac's older brother, who died at nine of rheumatic fever, and who for Kerouac became an emblem of saintliness. The intensely focused and harrowing Big Sur (1962) finds fictional alter ego Jack Duluoz returning to California to escape fame.

Author description

TODD TIETCHEN is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and the author of "The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana" (2010). He edited Jack Kerouac's "The Haunted Life and Other Writings "(2014).