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Big Sur

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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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Flamingo
0007115172 / 9780007115174
Paperback
813.54
17/04/2001
England
English
Contemporary classics
214p.
18 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1962; London: Andrâe Deutsch, 1963.