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Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phone calls, mail, and reporters in the wake of the success of On the Road, Jack Kerouac needed peace, quiet, sobriety, and solitude, so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast. Amid the wild beauty of the landscape, Kerouac struggled to come to terms with his own myth and its malign impact on his life. The result is Big Sur, a moving, gritty, and uninhibited autobiographical account of a man struggling with inner demons, blessed by talent and cursed with an urge towards self-destruction-a path lined with bourbon, Manhattans, and scotch. Searingly honest and raw, Big Sur shows a man coming to terms with fame, himself, and the world.
Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved. JACK KEROUAC was an American novelist and poet, known as a literary iconoclast, an underground celebrity, father of the Beat generation, and a progenitor of the hippie movement. Born in Massachusetts in 1922, Kerouac attended prep school in New York City on a football scholarship. In 1940, he enrolled at Columbia University, where he met Allan Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, who would become lifelong friends and seminal figures of the Beat movement. Through the 1950s, Kerouac wrote much of his work, becoming a national sensation after the publication of his most famous work, On the Road (1957), in which he used the "spontaneous prose" narrative style he created. During these years he turned to Buddhist study and practice and continued to write with his study as influence (The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans). He continued to write lesser-known novels into the 1960s, and died in 1969. Several of his works were published posthumously.
Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved. JACK KEROUAC was an American novelist and poet, known as a literary iconoclast, an underground celebrity, father of the Beat generation, and a progenitor of the hippie movement. Born in Massachusetts in 1922, Kerouac attended prep school in New York City on a football scholarship. In 1940, he enrolled at Columbia University, where he met Allan Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, who would become lifelong friends and seminal figures of the Beat movement. Through the 1950s, Kerouac wrote much of his work, becoming a national sensation after the publication of his most famous work, On the Road (1957), in which he used the "spontaneous prose" narrative style he created. During these years he turned to Buddhist study and practice and continued to write with his study as influence (The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans). He continued to write lesser-known novels into the 1960s, and died in 1969. Several of his works were published posthumously.
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