Big Sur - by Jack Kerouac (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In a thinly veiled autobiographical account of his time in Big Sur at the cabin of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and with friends in San Francisco-among them fellow iconoclasts Neal Cassady, Gary Snyder, and Alan Watts-Kerouac chronicles a ruinous alcoholic bender with searing psychological candor. Includes a character key and a biographical timeline.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Five years after <em>On the Road, </em> the book that made him an overnight celebrity, Kerouac examines with wrenching clarity his unwished for fame, escalating alcoholism, and troubling alienation from nature. In a thinly veiled autobiographical account of his time in Big Sur at the cabin of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and with friends in San Francisco--among them fellow iconoclasts Neal Cassady, Gary Snyder, and Alan Watts--he chronicles a ruinous alcoholic bender with searing psychological candor. Kerouac displays full mastery of pace, structure, and idiom in <em>Big Sur</em>--a tale that ends with a crescendo as finely wrought and poignant as any in American literature. Includes a character key and a detailed biographical timeline.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Certainly Kerouac's grittiest novel to date and the one which will be read with most respect by those skeptical of all the Beat business in the first place."<em>--The New York Times</em></p><p>"Kerouac's masterpiece, and one of the great, great works<br /> of the English language."--Richard Meltzer</p><p>"A humane, precise account of the extraordinary ravages of alcohol delirium tremens on Kerouac, a superior novelist who had strength to complete his poetic narrative, a task few scribes so afflicted have accomplished. . . . Here at the peak of his suffering humorous genius he wrote through his misery to end with 'Sea, ' a brilliant poem."--Allen Ginsberg</p><br>
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