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Big Sur: (Penguin Ink)

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jack Kerouac, Aram Saroyan (Foreword by), Rob Admiraal (Illustrator)Series:Penguin InkAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2011-04-26Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143119234ISBN-10:143119230UPC:9780143119234Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Biographical, ClassicsSize:7.60 x 4.80 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4409Product ID:SC414356HG
A poignant masterpiece of wrenching personal expression from the author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums

In this 1962 novel, 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."
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143119234ISBN-10:143119230UPC:9780143119234Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Biographical, ClassicsSize:7.60 x 4.80 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4409Product ID:SC414356HG
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.
Publisher: Penguin Books

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