Big Sur

Jack Kerouac

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Penguin Classics
15 August 2018

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Great Kerouac

Kerouac's stunningly vivid and gritty second novel, now in A-format

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.

By: Jack Kerouac
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 181mm, Width: 111mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 116g
ISBN: 9780241348086
ISBN 10: 0241348080
Series: Great Kerouac
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 15 August 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called 'spontaneous prose'. He used this technique to record the life of the American 'traveler' and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably in On the Road and also in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His other works include Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa, and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues. Jack Kerouac died in 1969.