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'Kerouac's grittiest novel ... sensual and uninhibited' The New York Times Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 'King of the Beats', needs peace, quiet and sobriety: surrounded and outnumbered he has to 'get away to solitude again or die'. Amidst the wild beauty of the Californian landscape, Kerouac struggles to come to terms with his own myth and its malign impact upon his life. The result is a moving account of a man struggling with inner demons: blessed by great talent and cursed with an urge towards self-destruction - a path lined with double bourbons, Manhattans and scotch ...
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Big Sur, Jack Kerouac
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- Année de publication
- 2018
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- Titre
- Big Sur
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Jack Kerouac
- Éditeur
- Penguin UK
- Publié
- 2018
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN10
- 0241348080
- ISBN13
- 9780241348086
- Séries
- La légende de Duluoz
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Thème historique, Polars & Thrillers, Voyage, Thriller, Classiques, États-Unis, Littérature américaine, 20e siècle, Thrillers psychologiques, Romans courts, Mers et océans, Romans autobiographiques, Californie, Plages, Beatniks
- Première publication
- 1962
- Titre original
- Big Sur
- Évaluation
- 3,85 sur 5
- Description
- 'Kerouac's grittiest novel ... sensual and uninhibited' The New York Times Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 'King of the Beats', needs peace, quiet and sobriety: surrounded and outnumbered he has to 'get away to solitude again or die'. Amidst the wild beauty of the Californian landscape, Kerouac struggles to come to terms with his own myth and its malign impact upon his life. The result is a moving account of a man struggling with inner demons: blessed by great talent and cursed with an urge towards self-destruction - a path lined with double bourbons, Manhattans and scotch ...