TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kerouac,Jack
TI  - Big Sur
SN  - 0140168125 :
AV  - PS3521.E735 B5 1992
U1  - 813/.54 20
PY  - 1992///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Beat generation
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Alcoholic psychoses
KW  - Autobiographical fiction
KW  - gsafd
N2  - Coming down from his carefree youth and unwanted fame, Jack Kerouac undertakes a mature confrontation of some of his most troubling emotional issues: a burgeoning problem with alcoholism, addiction, fear, and insecurity. He dutifully records his ever-changing states of consciousness, which culminate in a powerful religious experience. Big Sur was written some time after Jack Kerouac's best-known works, following a visit to northern California and the first feelings of midlife crisis. Kerouac stayed for several weeks in a cabin in Big Sur, California, and with friends in San Francisco. Upon returning home, he wrote this account in a two-week period. Critic Richard Meltzer referred to Big Sur as Kerouac's 'masterpiece, and one of the great, great works of the English language.'
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/bigsur00kero
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL1358229M
ER  -