Big Sur (Unabridged)
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3.9 • 31 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
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."
Customer Reviews
Unfocused Kerouac
A big fan of On The Road and Dharma Bums, this one feels unfocused and in need of some rewriting. It meanders too much. It takes flight occasionally, and superbly at that. Ethan Hawke is an excellent narrator.