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Jack Kerouac - The Sea is My Brother: The Lost Novel
Released: 24/11/2011
Penguin
Discovered in 1992, this previously unpublished novel predates Kerouac's renowned On the Road as an exercise in style. Based on the beat hero's time as a Merchant Marine in 1942, it follows Wesley Martin, a 20th-century Melvillean Ishmael, similarly drawn by the strange oblivion and escapism of life at sea.
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The Telegraph“A sketch of a novel...” The Sea is my Brother is as much of a "road" novel as his classic work in that it is filled with garrulous men on the move...
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The Huffington Post“"It changes our view of Kerouac"...” Not everyone thinks the late beatnik author would have been amused by the decision to release 'The Sea is My Brother'...
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The Spectator“The novel established the pattern of all his later fiction...” The book is worth getting as a literary curio of value for anyone interested in the decline of civilisation...
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The Independent“The execution leaves much to be desired...” There are wonderful bursts of Kerouackian jazz-prose which break through the strictures of the conventional novel, and even then his ear for dialogue was sharp and naturalistic...
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Guardian“The writing should be entered in a bad prose competition...” That it never found a publisher during his lifetime is not hard to understand. When he was older and wiser Kerouac called this effort "a crock"...
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