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Big Sur
Author: Jack Kerouac
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Unabridged: 5 hr 44 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/01/2007
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Synopsis
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 everchanging states of consciousness, which culminate in a powerful religious experience.Big Sur was written some time after Jack Kerouac's bestknown 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 twoweek period. Critic Richard Meltzer referred to Big Sur as Kerouac's "masterpiece, and one of the great, great works of the English language."