Patrick Skene-Catling

A literary curio

  • The Sea is My Brother

    Jack Kerouac

    Penguin, pp. 426

Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac, better known as Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), the son of French-Canadians spiced with the blood of Mohawk and Caughnawaga Indians and subdued, no doubt, by migration from Quebec to Lowell, an old mill town in Massachusetts, eventually fulfilled his adolescent ambition

to live the life of the eccentric ‘artist’ .

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