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Big Sur

Big Sur

Kerouac, Jack

Paperback

Adventurers & ExplorersBiographies GeneralLiterary Figures

ISBN13: 9798869208637
Publisher: Nighthawk Books
Published: Feb 23 2024
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

Big Sur, first published in 1962, was written by author and poet Jack Kerouac in the fall of 1961 over a ten-day period. This Penguin edition reprint recounts Kerouac's (here known by the name of his fictional alter-ego Jack Duluoz) three brief stays at a cabin in Bixby Canyon, Big Sur, California, owned by Kerouac's friend and Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The novel depicts Jack Duluoz's mental and physical deterioration. Despite his mainstream success with his earlier novels, Duluoz is unable to cope with his new-found fame and advancing alcoholism. He attempts to recover first in solitude in the cabin at Big Sur, and later in a relationship with Billie, the mistress of his long-time friend Cody Pomeray (in real life Neal Cassady). Duluoz is driven by loneliness to return to the city and resumes drinking heavily. An addendum to the book contains a free-verse poem by Kerouac: Sea: Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur, written from the perspective of the Pacific Ocean. A film adaptation of Big Sur, directed by Michael Polish, was released in 2013.

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