130 pages
English language
Published Nov. 18, 1991 by Penguin Books.
130 pages
English language
Published Nov. 18, 1991 by Penguin Books.
Kerouac called this his "best most serious sad and true book yet." Kerouac weaves his later Buddhist tendencies into a memoir about his Franco-American Catholic childhood, focusing on the time leading up to the death of his beloved older brother Gerard when Jack was five years old and Gerard was nine.