Big Sur

Literature & Fiction

jack-kerouac

Contemporary

Harper-perennial

"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntatic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion. Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later half XX century, a synthesis of Proust, Céline, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Genet, Thelonius Monk, Basho, Charlie Parker, and Kerouac's own athletic sacred insight. 
"Big Sur's humane, precise account of the extraordinary ravages of alcohol delirium tremens on Kerouac, a suerior novelist who had strength to complete his poetic narrative, a task few scribes so afflicted have accomplished-others crack up. Here we meet San Francisco's poets & recognize hero Dean Moriarty ten years after On the Road. Jack Kerouac was a 'writer,' as his great peer W.S. Burroughs says, and here at the peak of his suffering humorous genius he wrote through his misery to end with 'Sea,' a brilliant poem appended, on the hallucinatory Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur." -Allen Ginsberg

Clean, bright used copy with tight binding. NEVER a library book.

Visions of Gerard

Genre Fiction

McGraw-Hill Book Company

Tristessa

Classics

McGraw-Hill Companies

Kerouac Jack : on the Road (Om) (Penguin Twentieth-century Classics)

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Describes the wanderings across America, casual friendships, labours, and affairs of Sal Paradise, a young writer, and his friend and hero, Dean Moriarty. Episodic, fast-moving, unstructured, it produced a mythology of its own and many imitators.

On the Road (Twentieth Century Classics)

Spine creased. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

On the Road

Literary

Penguin Classics

The legendary novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation, now in a striking new Pengiun Classics Deluxe Edition Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naiveté and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.

United States

Sal paradise, a young innocent, joins the slightly crazed dean moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the united states their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the american dream a brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, jack kerouacs exhilerating novel defined the new beat generation it had tremendous impact on both sides of the atlantic and made him famous overnight

On the Road (Popular Penguins)

Penguin

"The Dharma Bums" appeared just one year after the author's explosive "On The Road" had put the Beat Generation on the literary map and Kerouac on the best-seller list. The same expansiveness, humour and contagious zest for life that sparked the earlier novels sparks this one too, but through a more cohesive story. The books follow two young men engaged in a passionate search for dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen way, which takes them climbing into the high sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.

The Dharma Bums (Penguin Modern Classics)

Penguin Books, Limited (UK)

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Big Sur

Big Sur

Visions of Gerard

Tristessa

Kerouac Jack : on the Road (Om) (Penguin Twentieth-century Classics)

On the Road (Twentieth Century Classics)

On the Road

On the Road

On the Road (Popular Penguins)

The Dharma Bums (Penguin Modern Classics)