{"product_id":"9781598533743","title":"Jack Kerouac: Visions of Cody, Visions of Gerard, Big Sur (Loa #262)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn authoritative edition of three Beat novels by the legendary author of \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003eThe third volume in The Library of America’s edition of the writings of Jack Kerouac opens with\u003ci\u003e Visions of Cody\u003c\/i\u003e, the groundbreaking work originally written in the early 1950s and published posthumously in 1972, in which Kerouac first treats the material later immortalized in \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e. In it he moves beyond his early literary models to discover his own unique “bop prosody,” mixing closely observed description, free-form scats, and transcribed conversation to create an impassioned and hallucinatory portrait of his friend and idol Neal Cassady, here reimagined as Cody Pomeray. \u003ci\u003eVisions of Gerard \u003c\/i\u003e(1963) is a deeply moving meditation on Kerouac’s older brother, who died at nine of rheumatic fever, and who for Kerouac became an emblem of saintliness. The intensely focused and harrowing \u003ci\u003eBig Sur\u003c\/i\u003e (1962) finds fictional alter ego Jack Duluoz returning to California to escape fame and celebrity, a fateful decision that leads to a dangerous affair with Pomeray’s mistress, a nightmarish alcohol-fueled breakdown, and a desperate struggle for sobriety.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049070543088,"sku":"9781598533743","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781598533743_p0.jpg?v=1763812927","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781598533743","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}