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Big Sur

Paperback • 2017 • English • 1. edition

Big Sur

By Jack Kerouac

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About the book

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 Pa...Show more

Classic fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9780141198255

Publisher

Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

Published year

2017

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Big Sur

Format

Paperback

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