Description

In the spring of 1943, throughout a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year-old Jack Kerouac attempted to create his first book. Operating diligently night and day to accomplish it manually, it was titled by him The Ocean Is My Buddy. Today, almost seventy years later, its long-anticipated book offers intriguing facts and insight in to the early-life and growth of an American literary icon.Written seven years prior To The Town and The City formally launched his writing career, The Ocean Is My Buddy represents a critical stage by which Kerouac started laying the foundations for his groundbreaking technique and trademark design. A definite precursor to these landmark works as On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and Visions of Cody, it's an essential formative function that contains all of the hallmarks of traditional Kerouac: the look for religious meaning in a materialistic world, natural journey whilst the correct road to independence, late evenings in pubs and flats involved in intense discussion, the desperate desire to flee from culture, and the unusual, horrible splendor of loneliness.