Big Sur -- Jack Kerouac

<p><b>A poignant masterpiece of wrenching personal expression from the author of </b><i><b>On the Road</b></i><b> and </b><i><b>The Dharma Bums</b></i><b><i> <p/></i></b>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, <i> Big Sur</i> reveals consciousness in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Jack Kerouac<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Books<br><b>Published:</b> 06/01/1992<br><b>Pages:</b> 256<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.39lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.76h x 5.04w x 0.47d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780140168129<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-UP<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Entertainment Weekly</i> 12/11/2009 pg. 37<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Jack Kerouac(1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are <b>On the Road</b>, <b>The Dharma Bums</b>, <b>Big Sur</b>, and <b>Visions of Cody</b>.</p>