Big Sur
by Jack Kerouac and Tom Parker
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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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Alcoholic psychoses, Beat generation, Fiction, Fiction in English, Beats (Persons), Psicosis alcohólicas, Ficción, Novela autobiográfica, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Literary collections, American Autobiographical fiction, Fiction, biographical, American literature, Modern fiction, General, Literary Criticism, Unabridged Audio - Fiction/General, Audio Adult: Books On Tape, Books & ReadingPlaces
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Originally published, New York , Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962 London , Deutsch, 1963.
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