Big Sur

ISBN: 0140168125

Author: Kerouac, Jack

Condition: New

A poignant masterpiece of wrenching personal expression from the acclaimed author of On the RoadIn many ways, particularly in the lyrical immediacy that is his distinctive glory, this is Kerouacs best book . . . certainly he has never displayed more gentle sweetness.-San Francisco ChronicleJack Kerouacs 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.