Big Sur (9781734029260)
Paperback 190 pages English November 12, 2019
Millions of titlesEvery book you're looking for
Carbon-neutral shippingFree on orders over $39.99
Fast shipping worldwideDelivered to your door
Five years after On the Road, the book that made him an overnight celebrity, Kerouac examines with wrenching clarity his unwished for fame, escalating alcoholism, and troubling alienation from nature. In a thinly veiled autobiographical account of his time in Big Sur at the cabin of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and with friends in San Francisco--among them fellow iconoclasts Neal Cassady, Gary Snyder, and Alan Watts--he chronicles a ruinous alcoholic bender with searing psychological candor. Kerouac displays full mastery of pace, structure, and idiom in Big Sur--a tale that ends with a crescendo as finely wrought and poignant as any in American literature. Includes a character key and a detailed biographical timeline.
- Author:
- Jack Kerouac
- Publisher:
- Mary Bahr Inc.
- Publication Date:
- November 12, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 190 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1734029269
- ISBN-13:
- 9781734029260