Big Sur -- Jack Kerouac, Paperback

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.

Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 06/01/1992
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.76h x 5.04w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780140168129
Age Range: 18-UP

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 12/11/2009 pg. 37

About the Author
Jack Kerouac(1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.