The Sea Is My Brother
by Jack Kerouac
Product Description
[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]
[Read by Ray Porter]
In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the merchant marine, twenty-one-year-old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it
The Sea Is My Brother. Nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon.
Written seven years before
The Town and the City officially launched his writing career,
The Sea Is My Brother marks the pivotal point at which Kerouac began laying the foundations for his pioneering method and signature style. The novel chronicles the misadventures of two seamen who at first seem different but are really two sides of the same coin: twenty-seven-year-old Wesley Martin, who ''loved the sea with a strange, lonely love,'' and William Everhart, an assistant professor of English at Columbia College who, at thirty-two, impulsively ships out, hoping to ''escape society for the sea, but finds the sea a place of terrible loneliness.''
A clear precursor to such landmark novels as
On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and
Visions of Cody, it is an important formative work that bears all the hallmarks of classic Kerouac: the search for spiritual meaning in a materialistic world, spontaneous travel as the true road to freedom, late nights of intense conversation in bars and apartments, the desperate urge to escape from society, and the strange, terrible beauty of loneliness.
Review
''Published for the first time, the novel betrays the faults of inexperience . . . But these are outweighed by its virtues -- the vitality of its dialogue, the freshness and power of its descriptions, whether of cheap saloons, cramped cabins, or sunrise at sea, a social concern rarely found in American fiction since
Dos Passos.'' --
Daily Mail (London)
''The real value in
The Sea Is My Brother is that it shows that Kerouac didn't spring fully formed as the 'King of the Beats,' but had an evolution, a period of growing up and maturing, and that he -- as any great writer must -- certainly paid his dues.'' --
Independent (London)
About the Author
JACK KEROUAC (1922-1969), father of the Beat Generation, was one of the most inventive writers of the twentieth century. He was the author of
On the Road, The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and many other books.
[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]
[Read by Ray Porter]
In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the merchant marine, twenty-one-year-old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it
The Sea Is My Brother. Nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon.
Written seven years before
The Town and the City officially launched his writing career,
The Sea Is My Brother marks the pivotal point at which Kerouac began laying the foundations for his pioneering method and signature style. The novel chronicles the misadventures of two seamen who at first seem different but are really two sides of the same coin: twenty-seven-year-old Wesley Martin, who ''loved the sea with a strange, lonely love,'' and William Everhart, an assistant professor of English at Columbia College who, at thirty-two, impulsively ships out, hoping to ''escape society for the sea, but finds the sea a place of terrible loneliness.''
A clear precursor to such landmark novels as
On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and
Visions of Cody, it is an important formative work that bears all the hallmarks of classic Kerouac: the search for spiritual meaning in a materialistic world, spontaneous travel as the true road to freedom, late nights of intense conversation in bars and apartments, the desperate urge to escape from society, and the strange, terrible beauty of loneliness.
Review
''Published for the first time, the novel betrays the faults of inexperience . . . But these are outweighed by its virtues -- the vitality of its dialogue, the freshness and power of its descriptions, whether of cheap saloons, cramped cabins, or sunrise at sea, a social concern rarely found in American fiction since
Dos Passos.'' --
Daily Mail (London)
''The real value in
The Sea Is My Brother is that it shows that Kerouac didn't spring fully formed as the 'King of the Beats,' but had an evolution, a period of growing up and maturing, and that he -- as any great writer must -- certainly paid his dues.'' --
Independent (London)
About the Author
JACK KEROUAC (1922-1969), father of the Beat Generation, was one of the most inventive writers of the twentieth century. He was the author of
On the Road, The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and many other books.
Literature & FictionUnited StatesLiterary
RELEASED2012
PUBLISHERBlackstone Audio, Inc.
LANGUAGEEN
Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian ancestry. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements.
The Sea Is My Brother
by Jack Kerouac
Product Description
[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]
[Read by Ray Porter]
In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the merchant marine, twenty-one-year-old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it
The Sea Is My Brother. Nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon.
Written seven years before
The Town and the City officially launched his writing career,
The Sea Is My Brother marks the pivotal point at which Kerouac began laying the foundations for his pioneering method and signature style. The novel chronicles the misadventures of two seamen who at first seem different but are really two sides of the same coin: twenty-seven-year-old Wesley Martin, who ''loved the sea with a strange, lonely love,'' and William Everhart, an assistant professor of English at Columbia College who, at thirty-two, impulsively ships out, hoping to ''escape society for the sea, but finds the sea a place of terrible loneliness.''
A clear precursor to such landmark novels as
On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and
Visions of Cody, it is an important formative work that bears all the hallmarks of classic Kerouac: the search for spiritual meaning in a materialistic world, spontaneous travel as the true road to freedom, late nights of intense conversation in bars and apartments, the desperate urge to escape from society, and the strange, terrible beauty of loneliness.
Review
''Published for the first time, the novel betrays the faults of inexperience . . . But these are outweighed by its virtues -- the vitality of its dialogue, the freshness and power of its descriptions, whether of cheap saloons, cramped cabins, or sunrise at sea, a social concern rarely found in American fiction since
Dos Passos.'' --
Daily Mail (London)
''The real value in
The Sea Is My Brother is that it shows that Kerouac didn't spring fully formed as the 'King of the Beats,' but had an evolution, a period of growing up and maturing, and that he -- as any great writer must -- certainly paid his dues.'' --
Independent (London)
About the Author
JACK KEROUAC (1922-1969), father of the Beat Generation, was one of the most inventive writers of the twentieth century. He was the author of
On the Road, The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and many other books.
[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]
[Read by Ray Porter]
In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the merchant marine, twenty-one-year-old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it
The Sea Is My Brother. Nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon.
Written seven years before
The Town and the City officially launched his writing career,
The Sea Is My Brother marks the pivotal point at which Kerouac began laying the foundations for his pioneering method and signature style. The novel chronicles the misadventures of two seamen who at first seem different but are really two sides of the same coin: twenty-seven-year-old Wesley Martin, who ''loved the sea with a strange, lonely love,'' and William Everhart, an assistant professor of English at Columbia College who, at thirty-two, impulsively ships out, hoping to ''escape society for the sea, but finds the sea a place of terrible loneliness.''
A clear precursor to such landmark novels as
On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and
Visions of Cody, it is an important formative work that bears all the hallmarks of classic Kerouac: the search for spiritual meaning in a materialistic world, spontaneous travel as the true road to freedom, late nights of intense conversation in bars and apartments, the desperate urge to escape from society, and the strange, terrible beauty of loneliness.
Review
''Published for the first time, the novel betrays the faults of inexperience . . . But these are outweighed by its virtues -- the vitality of its dialogue, the freshness and power of its descriptions, whether of cheap saloons, cramped cabins, or sunrise at sea, a social concern rarely found in American fiction since
Dos Passos.'' --
Daily Mail (London)
''The real value in
The Sea Is My Brother is that it shows that Kerouac didn't spring fully formed as the 'King of the Beats,' but had an evolution, a period of growing up and maturing, and that he -- as any great writer must -- certainly paid his dues.'' --
Independent (London)
About the Author
JACK KEROUAC (1922-1969), father of the Beat Generation, was one of the most inventive writers of the twentieth century. He was the author of
On the Road, The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and many other books.
Literature & FictionUnited StatesLiterary
RELEASED2012
PUBLISHERBlackstone Audio, Inc.
LANGUAGEEN
Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian ancestry. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements.
