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Big Sur

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Kerouac's gritty, moving take on the destruction of his own myth, as the "King of the Beats" approaches middle age!

Unmistakably autobiographical, "Big Sur", Kerouac's ninth novel, was written as the "King of the Beats" was approaching middle-age and reflects his struggle to come to terms with his own myth.

The magnificent and moving story of Jack Duluoz, a man blessed by great talent and cursed with an urge towards self-destruction, "Big Sur" is at once Kerouac's toughest and his most humane work.

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Product Details
HarperPerennial
0007204981 / 9780007204984
Paperback
813.54
18/04/2006
United Kingdom
English
Contemporary classics
192 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1962; London: Andrâe Deutsch, 1963.
/ Includes PS Section Kerouac's gritty, moving take on the destruction of his own myth, as the King of the Beats approaches middle age! / Big Sur is to be reissued with an exciting new jacket treatment. / Revitalised editions of our other Kerouac titles will be published throughout the spring as part of the Harper Perennial Modern Classics series.
/ Includes PS Section Kerouac's gritty, moving take on the destruction of his own myth, as the King of the Beats approaches middle age! / Big Sur is to be reissued with an exciting new jacket treatment. / Revitalised editions of our other Kerouac titles will be published throughout the spring as part of the Harper Perennial Modern Classics series. FA Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)