Big Sur

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McGraw-Hill, 1989 - Fiction - 241 pages
'Big Sur' is a moving account of a man coming to terms with his own myth, his own talent and his uncontrollable, unrelenting, self-destructive life. Now approaching middle-age, Jack Duluoz retreats to California to escape the pressures of his fame."

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
9
Section 3
14
Copyright

29 other sections not shown

Common terms and phrases

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About the author (1989)

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. His first novel, The Town and the City, was published in 1950. He considered all of his "true story novels," including On the Road, to be chapters of "one vast book," his autobiographical Legend of Duluoz. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969 at the age of forty-seven.

Bibliographic information

TitleBig Sur
McGraw-Hill Paperbacks
AuthorJack Kerouac
ContributorAram Saroyan
Edition2, reprint
PublisherMcGraw-Hill, 1989
Original fromIndiana University
DigitizedApr 7, 2010
ISBN0070342407, 9780070342408
Length241 pages
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Fiction / Literary
  
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