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Big Sur
By Jack Kerouac
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By Jack Kerouac
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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 ...
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