The Sea is My Brother: The Lost Novel

The Sea is My Brother: The Lost Novel

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‘His first novel is a revelation … the writing is vivid, serious and extraordinary … wonderful’ The Times The Sea is My Brother is Jack Kerouac’s very first novel, begun shortly after his tour as a merchant sailor in 1942. Lost during his lifetime, it is an intense portrait of friendship and brotherhood and a meditation on the desire to escape society, following the fortunes of two men as they impulsively decide to work their passage on the S.S. Westminster: drinking, arguing, playing cards, dodging torpedoes and contemplating the vast, terrible beauty of the sea. Published with fragments of early stories and letters, this visceral work gives a unique insight into the young Kerouac and the formation of his genius. ‘What’s clear from this newly published first novel is that Kerouac was positively fizzing with talent at an early age’ Sunday Times

Additional information

Weight0.318 kg
Dimensions2.3 × 13 × 19.8 cm
Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0141193344

About The Author

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922. In 1947, enthused by bebop, the rebel attitude of his friend Neal Cassady, and the throng of hobos, drug addicts and hustlers he encountered in New York, he decided to discover America and hitchhike across the country. His writing was openly autobiographical and he developed a style he referred to as 'spontaneous prose', which he used to record the experiences of the Beat Generation. Among his many novels are On the Road, Visions of Cody, The Subterraneans, The Dharma Bums and Big Sur. He died in 1969.

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