Big Sur -- Jack Kerouac

<p>Five years after <em>On the Road, </em> the book that made him an overnight celebrity, Kerouac examines with wrenching clarity his unwished for fame, escalating alcoholism, and troubling alienation from nature. In a thinly veiled autobiographical account of his time in Big Sur at the cabin of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and with friends in San Francisco--among them fellow iconoclasts Neal Cassady, Gary Snyder, and Alan Watts--he chronicles a ruinous alcoholic bender with searing psychological candor. Kerouac displays full mastery of pace, structure, and idiom in <em>Big Sur</em>--a tale that ends with a crescendo as finely wrought and poignant as any in American literature. Includes a character key and a detailed biographical timeline.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Jack Kerouac<br><b>Publisher:</b> Warbler Classics<br><b>Published:</b> 11/14/2019<br><b>Pages:</b> 192<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.49lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.44d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781734029260<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-UP