Pic Author:Jack Kerouac Set in 1948, Pic is told by a ten-year old black boy, Pictorial Review Jackson, in the black dialect indigenous to the North Carolina farm country. It is of Pic's adventures--in his native state, in New York, and on the road--with his brother Slim, who has "adopted" him after the death of Pic's grandfather. — I... more »n his candid way, Pic defines aspects of black life that foreshadow the civil rights movements of the sixties, and the move towards Negritude that grew out of it.
Much of the book takes place "on the road," and it is here, of course, that the author is most at home. With anecdotes, swift characterizations, and flashes of conversation, Kerouac sketches the road culture of the forties in a gentle and thoroughly engaging novel.« less