Jack Kerouac, Big Sur
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Kerouac, Jack. Big Sur. First Edition. 1962. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition—white portions of jacket show only mild discoloration: a lovely copy.
Not a success when first published, the critical appreciation of this, Kerouac’s last major novel, has steadily increased over the years. Moreover, it has been adapted as both a documentary and a dramatic film. Though the names are changed, the book is mostly autobiographical. It describes Kerouac’s failed attempt to dry out at his friend Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s remote Bixby Canyon cabin in Big Sur and his subsequent trip north to San Francisco and the familiar Beat haunts.
“But it is beautiful especially to see up ahead north a vast expanse of curving seacoast with inland mountains dreaming under slow clouds.”
--Jack Kerouac
Not a success when first published, the critical appreciation of this, Kerouac’s last major novel, has steadily increased over the years. Moreover, it has been adapted as both a documentary and a dramatic film. Though the names are changed, the book is mostly autobiographical. It describes Kerouac’s failed attempt to dry out at his friend Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s remote Bixby Canyon cabin in Big Sur and his subsequent trip north to San Francisco and the familiar Beat haunts.
“But it is beautiful especially to see up ahead north a vast expanse of curving seacoast with inland mountains dreaming under slow clouds.”
--Jack Kerouac
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