Sunday, November 27, 2011

Kerouac's 'lost' debut novel published after 70 years gathering dust

A novel written and tossed aside by author Jack Kerouac, the heroic figure of the Beat generation, has been published for the first time.

The Sea Is My Brother is based on the time the author spent in the U.S. merchant marines in 1942 when he was just 20 years old.


It was written before the seminal On The Road, critically acclaimed for its comment on the transient and lost youth of post-war America and the country's thriving counterculture.


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