Big Sur - Paperback
by Jack Kerouac
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jack Kerouac, Aram SaroyanTheme:Demographic Orientation/Rural, Demographic Orientation/Small TownAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1992-06-01Pages:256
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140168129ISBN-10:140168125UPC:9780140168129Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Classics, Small Town & RuralSize:7.76 x 5.04 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.39Product ID:SCYHTDPB2Z
A poignant masterpiece of wrenching personal expression from the acclaimed author of On the Road
"In many ways, particularly in the lyrical immediacy that is his distinctive glory, this is Kerouac's best book . . . certainly he has never displayed more 'gentle sweetness.'"--San Francisco Chronicle Jack Kerouac's alter ego Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Francisco and an isolated cabin on the California coast where he attempts to renew his spirit and clear his head of madness and alcohol. Only nature seems to restore him to a sense of balance. In the words of Allen Ginsberg, Big Sur "reveals consciousness in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion."
"In many ways, particularly in the lyrical immediacy that is his distinctive glory, this is Kerouac's best book . . . certainly he has never displayed more 'gentle sweetness.'"--San Francisco Chronicle Jack Kerouac's alter ego Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Francisco and an isolated cabin on the California coast where he attempts to renew his spirit and clear his head of madness and alcohol. Only nature seems to restore him to a sense of balance. In the words of Allen Ginsberg, Big Sur "reveals consciousness in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion."
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140168129ISBN-10:140168125UPC:9780140168129Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Classics, Small Town & RuralSize:7.76 x 5.04 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.39Product ID:SCYHTDPB2Z
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the "Beat generation" and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and Big Sur. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of "one vast book," The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.
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