PIC -- Jack Kerouac

<b>From one of the<br>most famous of the Beat writers, Kerouac's final novel of brotherhood and travel, <br>now reissued in a standalone edition following his centenary celebration</b></p> <p/>Pic--full name Pictorial Review Jackson--is<br>a ten-year-old Black boy living in rural North Carolina with his grandfather in<br>the 1940s. When Pic is forced to move in with his aunt after his grandfather's<br>passing, his older brother Slim appears to rescue him. Together, they hitch a<br>ride to New York City, where Slim lives with his pregnant girlfriend, but the<br>city's poverty shocks young Pic. When Slim loses job after job, the brothers<br>will pick up and head west, making their way to California across a country<br>suffused with hardship, music, love, and danger. Kerouac's last published<br>novel, <i>Pic </i>is an endearing portrayal of brotherhood and the classic<br>American road trip, seen through the adventurous eyes of a child. </p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Jack Kerouac<br><b>Publisher:</b> Grove Press<br><b>Published:</b> 01/23/2024<br><b>Pages:</b> 128<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.30lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.60d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780802160836<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>JACK KEROUAC</b> was born<br>in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. He won a scholarship to Columbia University, <br>where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. <i>On<br>the Road</i>, published in 1957, epitomized to the world what bec