Big Sur Big Sur

Big Sur

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Publisher Description

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.”

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1992
June 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
256
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
693
KB

Customer Reviews

Cowbell Cult ,

If you want to read one Kerouac then this is the one

Reads like great classical jazz that jigs and jives; jukes and juts. His description of the water, the waves, the ocean is poetry, not prose. A most truthful book.

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