by Jack Kerouac · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141193342
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«The Sea is My Brother» is Jack Kerouac's first novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (432 pages, in English).
Two men decide to work aboard the merchant ship S.S. Westminster to escape a society that suffocates them. Amid discussions, card games and the threat of torpedoes, the voyage becomes a meditation on friendship, freedom and the beauty of the sea. Includes early fragments of stories and letters by the author.
Written in 1942, the novel remained unpublished during the author's lifetime and was not released until 2012, in the Penguin Modern Classics collection.
Recommended for readers interested in Jack Kerouac's literary beginnings and maritime narrative.
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
