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Big Sur

Jack Kerouac

19661 pagesabout 5–10 minutes
1966
first published
  • 1966New English Library · 200 pages · ENGISBN 9780450013041
  • 1992Penguin Books · 241 pages · ENGISBN 9780140168129
  • 2001Flamingo · 224 pagesISBN 9780007115174
  • 2011Penguin Books · 224 pagesISBN 9780143119234
  • 2002Blackstone Audiobooks · ENGISBN 9780786198870
  • 2002Blackstone Audiobooks · 1 pages · ENGISBN 9780786196593
  • 2020Woolf Haus Publishing · 210 pagesISBN 9781925788402
  • 2013Siren Yayinlari · 240 pagesISBN 9786055903442

*Big Sur* is a novel written by *Jack Kerouac*, that was published in 1962. The books perspective is told from Kerouac's alter ego *Jack Dulouz*. The novel describes Kerouac's frustration that he has with his fame of being a writer, and how he goes to his friends cabin on Big Sur to get away from the madness of every day existence. The novel also describes Kerouac's mental state of being, and his struggles with alcohol. *Big Sur* is a book for any man, women, and possibly animal who has an unhealthy obsession with the beat generation.

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