Visions of Gerard

´The piteousness of his little soft shroud of hair falling down his brow and swept aside by the hand over blue serious eyes´ Described by Kerouac as ´my most serious sad and true book´, Visions of Gerard forms the first volume of his memoir cycle the ´Duluoz Legend´. Based on Jack Kerouac´s memories of the beloved older brother who died when he was a boy, it is unique among his novels for its dreamlike evocation of the sensations of childhood - its wisdom, anguish, intensity, innocence, joy and pain. It is a haunting exploration of the precariousness of existence. ´Called a "pain-tale" by Kerouac, it´s the story of an almost divine, Buddha-like child wracked with sickness and suffering´ Guardian