The Sea Is My Brother

  • The Sea Is My Brother: The Lost Novel
    By Jack Kerouac

    A man stood before the winch facing them all and speaking with gestures; on the top of the winch, he had placed a bible, and he now referred to it in a pause. Wesley recognized him as the ship's baker. “And they were helped against them ...

  • The Sea Is My Brother: The Lost Novel
    By Jack Kerouac

    In the spring of 1943, 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.

  • The Sea is My Brother: The Lost Novel
    By Jack Kerouac

    He goes down." Jack began this work not long after his first tour as a Merchant Marine on the S.S. Dorchester in the late summer of 1942 during which he kept a journal detailing the gritty daily routine of life at sea.

  • The Sea is My Brother: The Lost Novel
    By Jack Kerouac

    'Into this book, The Sea is My Brother, I shall weave all the passion and glory of living, its restlessness and peace, its fever and ennui, its mornings, noons and nights of desire, frustration, fear, triumph, and death .

  • The Sea is My Brother: The Lost Novel
    By Jack Kerouac

    The first major work by Jack Kerouac--never previously published in its entirety--now with related early writing and correspondence

  • The Sea is My Brother
    By Jack Kerouac

    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.