Visions of Gerard: Jack Kerouac

`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.