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Big Sur / Jack Kerouac ; [foreword by Aram Saroyan].
LIBRA Special PS3521.E735 B5 1992
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Van Pelt Reserves Desk - First Floor PS3521.E735 B5 1992 copy 2
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- Author/Creator:
- Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beats (Persons)--Fiction.
- Beats (Persons).
- Alcoholic psychoses--Fiction.
- Alcoholic psychoses.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- vi, 241 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, 1992.
- Summary:
- Coming down from his carefree youth and unwanted fame, Jack Kerouac undertakes a mature confrontation of some of his most troubling emotional issues: a burgeoning problem with alcoholism, addiction, fear, and insecurity. He dutifully records his ever-changing states of consciousness, which culminate in a powerful religious experience. Big Sur was written some time after Jack Kerouac's best-known works, following a visit to northern California and the first feelings of midlife crisis. Kerouac stayed for several weeks in a cabin in Big Sur, California, and with friends in San Francisco. Upon returning home, he wrote this account in a two-week period. Critic Richard Meltzer referred to Big Sur as Kerouac's 'masterpiece, and one of the great, great works of the English language.'
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. Big Sur.
- ISBN:
- 0140168125
- 9780140168129
- OCLC:
- 26089403
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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