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Ideal for readers interested in American literature, Beat Generation enthusiasts, and those seeking a deeply personal and reflective story about fame and self-destruction.
In a thinly veiled autobiographical account of his time in Big Sur at the cabin of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and with friends in San Francisco, Kerouac chronicles a ruinous alcoholic bender with searing psychological candor.
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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 candour.
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.
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ISBN: 9781734029260
Publisher: Warbler Classics
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 November 2019
Imprint: Warbler Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 11.0mm
Width: 133.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 222g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was an American novelist, poet, and, with Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, a central figure of the Beat Generation. He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, of French-Canadian parents and briefly attended Columbia University before falling in with a group of friends that would eventually define a literary movement. Big Sur is considered by many critics to be his finest literary achievement.
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