Visions of Gerard
The Duluoz Legend (Book 1)
- Author Jack Kerouac
- Narrator Andrew Eiden
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 23 July 2024
- Run Time 3 hours and 28 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biographical fiction, Family life fiction, Fiction: general and literary.
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What to expect
The first book in Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend, this novella details the writer’s early life as refracted through the prism of the untimely loss of his brother.
Unique among Jack Kerouac’s novels, Visions of Gerard captures the scenes and sensations of earliest childhood, the first four years in the life of Ti Jean Duluoz as they unfold in the short, tragic-happy life of his brother, Gerard. Set in Kerouac’s hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, childhood’s intensity, innocence, suffering, and delight unfold as Gerard interacts with animals, has visions of Our Lady in heaven, astonishes the priest in the church confessional, and observes his family as they laugh and drink and weep—that is, when he isn’t sick and confined to bed.
A novel that Kerouac called “my best most serious sad and true book yet,” Visions of Gerard is a beautiful, unsettling, and melancholic exploration of the meaning and precariousness of existence
Critics Review
[A] pleasant and underrated surprise…[Visions of Gerard] has a winning simplicity and sweetness.”
“Kerouac’s heartfelt ode to his brother, who died young, and to his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, always fires me up anew about the power of language, and reminds me that the highest aim of writing is to jolt us (albeit temporarily) into a more awake and uncertain state of mind.”
“The earliest and most heartfelt chapter of Kerouac’s fictionalized autobiography.”
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Andrew Eiden |
| Series | The Duluoz Legend |
| Duration | 3 hours and 28 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9798212435659 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Genre | Biographical fiction, Family life fiction, Fiction: general and literary |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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