The Sea Is My Brother Av Jack Kerouac

<p>''His first novel is a revelation ... the writing is vivid, serious and extraordinary ... wonderful'' <i>The Times</i> <br><br> <i>The Sea is My Brother</i> is Jack Kerouac''s very first novel, begun shortly after his tour as a merchant sailor in 1942. Lost during his lifetime, it is an intense portrait of friendship and brotherhood and a meditation on the desire to escape society, following the fortunes of two men as they impulsively decide to work their passage on the <i>S.S. Westminster</i>: drinking, arguing, playing cards, dodging torpedoes and contemplating the vast, terrible beauty of the sea. Published with fragments of early stories and letters, this visceral work gives a unique insight into the young Kerouac and the formation of his genius. <br><br> ''What''s clear from this newly published first novel is that Kerouac was positively fizzing with talent at an early age'' <i>Sunday Times</i></p>