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Big Sur

Jack Kerouac author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:3rd May '12

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In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to 'get away to solitude again or die', so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast. The resulting novel, in which his autobiographical hero Jack Duluoz wrestles with doubt, alcohol dependency and his urge towards self-destruction, is one of Kerouac's most personal and searingly honest works. Ending with the poem 'Sea: Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur', it shows a man coming down from his hedonistic youth and trying to come to terms with fame, the world and himself.

Kerouac's grittiest novel... sensual and uninhibited * The New York Times *
Stunning and vivid * Sunday Times *

ISBN: 9780141198255

Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 12mm

Weight: 148g

192 pages