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A poignant masterpiece of wrenching personal expression from the author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums

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, Big Sur reveals consciousness in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion.

Big Sur

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    A Paperback / softback by Jack Kerouac, Aram Saroyan

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      Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
      Published 1 June 1992
      ISBN-13 9780140168129
      978-0140168129
      ISBN-10 0140168125
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      Books by Jack Kerouac

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A poignant masterpiece of wrenching personal expression from the author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums

      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, Big Sur reveals consciousness in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion.

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