Visions of Gerard

"Occasionally, language does skitter out of control...but those passages of torrential typing, which Mr. Kerouac once mistook for genuine writing, have become much rarer now. More imporant still, by returning to his own soil and antecedents, and in a French Catholic context rather than in the borrowed framework of Oriental religion, Mr. Kerouac makes the figure of the saint more understandable....In old Duluoz, father of the family, Mr. Kerouac has created his first solidly mature character."Kerouac, Jack is the author of 'Visions of Gerard', published 1991 under ISBN 9780140144529 and ISBN 0140144528.