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Big Sur by Jack Kerouac (2014, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherDevault-Graves Agency, T.H.E.

ISBN-100989671488

ISBN-139780989671484

eBay Product ID (ePID)202505064

Product Key Features

Publication Year2014

TopicGeneral

Book TitleBig Sur

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorJack Kerouac

FormatTrade Paperback

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceAdult Education

Dewey Edition21

Educational LevelAdult & Further Education

Dewey Decimal813.5/4

Edition DescriptionAnnotated edition

SynopsisJack Kerouac shot to literary fame in 1957 with the publication of his iconic book of the Beat Generation, On the Road. Kerouac was termed "King of the Beats," a mantle he was entirely uncomfortable with. Along with Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, and several others forged a new literary voice and attitude - it was a movement that often mocked and challenged the American status quo. Prior to the publication of On the Road, Kerouac had written several novels and poems. With the almost overnight success of On the Road, publishers clamored for his other books and a Kerouac industry was born. Within only a few years of being heralded as the voice of a new generation, however, Kerouac was aging, severely alcoholic, and suffering from a death of the spirit. Arguably his finest post-On the Road novel, Big Sur captures Kerouac (here named Jack Duluoz) trying to escape the clamor of beatnik adulation by retreating to Lawrence Ferlinghetti's peaceful cabin in Big Sur. What begins as a pastoral regeneration descends into a personal hell when Kerouac suffers an alcoholic breakdown. Written in Kerouac's elegantly poetic and rapid-fire prose, Big Sur is both beautiful and horrific, a clear-eyed recollection of facing down his many demons and willing himself to survive them.