Big Sur
by Kerouac, Jack
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0241348080
- ISBN 13
- 9780241348086
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About This Item
Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd. | 2018 | Mass Market Paperback | 186 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: 'Kerouac's grittiest novel ... sensual and uninhibited' The New York Times Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 'King of the Beats', needs peace, quiet and sobriety: surrounded and outnumbered he has to 'get away to solitude again or die'. Amidst the wild beauty of the Californian landscape, Kerouac struggles to come to terms with his own myth and its malign impact upon his life. The result is a moving account of a man struggling with inner demons: blessed by great talent and cursed with an urge towards self-destruction - a path lined with double bourbons, Manhattans and scotch ... | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.
Synopsis
Big Sur is a 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac that recounts the time when the author (called by the name of his fictional alter-ego Jack Duluoz) visited a cabin in Big Sur owned by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Duluoz stayed for a few days, struggling through a nervous breakdown complicated by alcoholism.
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- h:strom - Text & Kultur AB / Antikvariat & Bokhandel (SE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Big Sur
- Author
- Kerouac, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0241348080
- ISBN 13
- 9780241348086
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