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Big Sur
By Jack Kerouac and Tom Parker (narrator)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Blackstone Audio Inc
Publication date May 1, 1999
Binding Cassette/Spoken Word
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780786115563
ISBN-10 0786115564
Dimensions 1.25 by 7 by 10 in.
Weight 0.70 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $32.95
Other format details audio
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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.'

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Paperback
Book cover for 9780143126416 Book cover for 9789879396544
 
Reprint edition from Penguin USA (October 9, 2013)
9780143126416 | details & prices | 212 pages | 5.25 × 7.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $15.00
This edition also contains Big Sur
from Adriana Hidalgo Editora S.A. (June 30, 2011)
9789879396544 | details & prices | 256 pages | List price $33.95
This edition also contains Big Sur
Cassette/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9780786115563
 
Unabridged edition from Blackstone Audio Inc (January 1, 2000)
9780786117017 | details & prices | 4.75 × 6.75 × 1.25 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $24.95
About: Unmistakably autobiographical, this book is a moving account of a man coming to terms with his own myth, his own talent and his uncontrollable, unrelenting, self-destructive life.
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from Blackstone Audio Inc (May 1, 1999)
9780786115563 | details & prices | 7.00 × 10.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $32.95
About: 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.

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