Big Sur - Softcover

Kerouac, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070342407 ISBN 13: 9780070342408

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, 1990

Synopsis

Book by Kerouac, Jack

About this title

About the Author:

Jack Kerouac(1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.

From AudioFile:

This autobiographical novel continues the adventures of the (older but certainly not mellower) wandering beatnik from ON THE ROAD. For a narrator it contains extraordinary difficulties, for the writing flies off into inebriated, overly long sentences that reflect, describe or just babble forward in a kind of free association. To keep such passages flowing while making sense out of them is no mean feat. Tom Parker pulls it off, erring only infrequently in his interpretation. He even manages to sound as if he were enjoying himself. The production is clean but tinny, possibly dampening the pleasure of home listeners, but hardly bothering drivers listening over traffic noise. Y.R. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0070342407
• ISBN 13: 9780070342408
• Binding: Paperback