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“It’s a remarkable meditation and profoundly tender, mythopoetic account of Kerouac’s older brother Gerard, who died in childhood. Gerard is conceptualised as a Catholic child saint or martyr figure. Gerard’s death was perhaps the signature event in Kerouac’s life, and his guilt in being the ‘wrong son’ who survived and the psychic and actual debt he felt he owed to his mother, is central to understanding him. Kerouac tells a story of Gerard’s story that he needs to believe.” Read more...
Howard Cunnell, Novelist
