Summary
"Big Sur's humane, precise account of the extraordinary ravages of alcohol delirium tremens on Kerouac, a suerior novelist who had strength to complete his poetic narrative, a task few scribes so afflicted have accomplishedothers crack up. Here we meet San Francisco's poets & recognize hero Dean Moriarty ten years after On the Road. Jack Kerouac was a 'writer,' as his great peer W.S. Burroughs says, and here at the peak of his suffering humorous genius he wrote through his misery to end with 'Sea,' a brilliant poem appended, on the hallucinatory Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur." Allen Ginsberg
Details
- Title Big Sur
- Author Jack Kerouac; Foreword by Aram Saroyan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1992-06-01
- ISBN 9780140168129 / 0140168125
- Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 7.76 x 5.04 x 0.47 in (19.71 x 12.80 x 1.19 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Library of Congress subjects Autobiographical fiction, Beat generation
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92251691
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 12/11/2009, Page 37
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