Pic (novel)

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Pic
First edition cover
Author	Jack Kerouac
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Fiction novel
Publisher	Grove Press
Publication date	1971
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	120 pp
ISBN	NA
Preceded by	Vanity of Duluoz (1968)
Followed by	Scattered Poems (1971)

Pic is a novella by Jack Kerouac, first published in 1971.

Pic is the story of a small child, Pictorial Review Jackson, from North Carolina. When his grandfather, with whom he lives, dies, his older brother appears and plucks him from the dysfunctional home of his aunt. They journey north to New York City, where Pic bears witness to the economic 'hard times' his brother is experiencing. After losing not one, but two jobs in one day, his brother sends his pregnant girlfriend to live with her sister in San Francisco, as the two boys try to hitch and bum their way across the country.

It is written in a voice that is stereotypically black.

It is out of print and currently available only as a single volume with either of Kerouac's novels Satori in Paris and The Subterraneans.

References

1971. Pic, ISBN 0-7043-1122-4
1988. Satori in Paris & Pic, ISBN 0-8021-3061-5

v t e Works by Jack Kerouac

Fiction	The Sea is My Brother (1942) And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (2008; with William S. Burroughs) The Town and the City (1950) On the Road (1957) The Subterraneans (1958) The Dharma Bums (1958) Doctor Sax (1959) Maggie Cassidy (1959) Book of Dreams (1960) Tristessa (1960) Visions of Cody (1960) Lonesome Traveler (1960) Big Sur (1962) Visions of Gerard (1963) Desolation Angels (1965) Satori in Paris (1966) Vanity of Duluoz (1968) Pic (1971) Orpheus Emerged (2002)

Poetry	Mexico City Blues (1959) The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1960) Scattered Poems (1971) Old Angel Midnight (1973) Book of Haikus (2003) Book of Sketches (2006)

Other books	Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings (1991) Good Blonde & Others (1993) Beat Generation (2005)

Audio	Poetry for the Beat Generation (1959) Blues and Haikus (1960) Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation (1960) The Jack Kerouac Collection (1990) Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness (1997) Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road (1999)

Related articles	One Fast Move or I'm Gone Bibliography

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