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Big Sur

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By Jack Kerouac
Illustrated by Rob Admiraal
Foreword by Aram Saroyan

By Jack Kerouac
Illustrated by Rob Admiraal
Foreword by Aram Saroyan

By Jack Kerouac
Read by Ethan Hawke
Foreword by Aram Saroyan

By Jack Kerouac
Read by Ethan Hawke
Foreword by Aram Saroyan

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Apr 26, 2011 | ISBN 9780143119234

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Oct 06, 2020 | 401 Minutes

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    About Big Sur

    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.”

    About Big Sur

    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.”

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    About Jack Kerouac

    Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met… More about Jack Kerouac

    About Jack Kerouac

    Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met… More about Jack Kerouac

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Apr 26, 2011 | 224 Pages | 5-1/8 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143119234

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $17.50
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Oct 06, 2020 | 401 Minutes | ISBN 9780593342763

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    Praise

    “In many ways, particularly in the lyrical immediacy that is his distinctive glory, this is Kerouac’s best book . . . certainly, he has never displayed more ‘gentle sweetness.'”
    –San Francisco Chronicle 

    “Kerouac’s grittiest novel to date and the one which will be read with most respect by those skeptical of all the Beat business in the first place.”
    –The New York Times Book Review 

    “Big Sur is so devastatingly honest and painful and yet so beautifully written….He was sharing his pain and suffering with the reader in the same way Dostoyevsky did, with the idea of salvation through suffering.”
    –David Amram

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