Big Sur
$19.98
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2018
Summary
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 K…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241348086 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241348080 |
| Author: | Jack Kerouac |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 116g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 111mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Great Kerouac |
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About The Author
Jack Kerouac
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.
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