# Big Sur

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- Authors: [Jack Kerouac](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-kerouac)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2012-05-03

## Description

In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road , he needed to 'get away to solitude again or die', so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast. The resulting novel, in which his autobiographical hero Jack Duluoz wrestles with doubt, alcohol dependency and his urge towards self-destruction, is one of Kerouac's most personal and searingly honest works. Ending with the poem 'Sea: Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur', it shows a man coming down from his hedonistic youth and trying to come to terms with fame, the world and himself.

## Editions

### Big Sur

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- Medium: audio
- Length: 6 h 41 min
- ISBN: 978-02-4154-599-7
- Published: 2021-05-20
- Language: en_GB

### Big Sur

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4134-808-6
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2018-08-02
- Language: en_GB

### Big Sur

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-825-5
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2012-05-03
- Language: en_GB

### Big Sur

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-203-9
- Published: 2012-05-03
- Language: en_GB

### Big Sur

- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4311-923-4
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2011-04-26
- Language: en_US

### Big Sur

- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4016-812-9
- Pages: 256
- Published: 1992-06-01
- Language: en_US

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