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Overview

Big Sur is a humane, precise account of the extraordinary ravages of delirium tremens on Kerouac, a superior novelist who had the strength to complete his poetic narrative despite his affliction. Here we meet San Francisco’s poets and recognize Dean Moriarty, ten years after On the Road. At the peak of his suffering, Kerouac was able to write through it all, ending this book with a tribute to the hallucinatory sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur.

Kerouac’s autobiographical novel is the inspiration for a documentary about the late writer scheduled for release in the fall of 2009. Including numerous interviews with writers and artists who both knew and were inspired by Kerouac, the film uses his words from Big Sur to recount his later years. It also includes interviews with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joyce Johnson, Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Sam Shepard, Carolyn Cassady, and Aram Saroyan.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780143119234
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 4/26/2011
  • Pages: 224
  • Sales rank: 142,608
  • Product dimensions: 5.10 (w) x 7.60 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Jack Kerouac(1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.

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  • Posted April 21, 2011

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    Readers will like Kerouacs trademark style and edgy introspection. However, this book is extraordinary also in that it provides a profound insight into the more serious side of Kerouacs alcoholism, and it's consequences. Sure to be a moving read for all, even those not otherwise interested in the "Beat" genre.

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    Stream of . . . everything . . .

    I was reminded more than once, while reading this book, of Burrough's 'Naked Lunch' with its disjointed sentence structure and dream-like paragraphs. But in Kerouac's hands, the material has a more seamless quality and the babble-speak becomes sheer poetry in places. With a 'form follows function' approach that Burroughs used, Tom Parker--the main character in this novel--indulges in free association because of his alcohol abuse and basic instability. Also reminded me of the writing of Martin Amis.

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