# Big Sur

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- Book: [Big Sur](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-kerouac/big-sur) ([Big Sur.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-kerouac/big-sur.md))
- Authors: [Jack Kerouac](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-kerouac)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-825-5
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2012-05-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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.