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Five years after On the Road, the book that made him an overnight celebrity, Kerouac examines with wrenching clarity his unwished for fame, escalating alcoholism, and troubling alienation from nature. In a thinly veiled autobiographical account of his time in Big Sur at the...

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ISBN:1734029269

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Big Sur

By Jack Kerouac

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2019 Reprint of 1962 Edition. 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...

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ISBN:1684223164

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Big Sur

By Jack Kerouac

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A poignant masterpiece of wrenching personal expression from the acclaimed author of On the Road

"In many ways, particularly in the lyrical immediacy that is his distinctive glory, this is Kerouac's best book . . . certainly he has never displayed...

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Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0140168125
ISBN13:9780140168129
Release Date:June 1992
Publisher:Penguin Books
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.61 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.0" x 7.8"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Big Sur: (Penguin Ink)

By Jack Kerouac

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A poignant masterpiece of wrenching personal expression from the author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums
In this 1962 novel, Kerouac's alter ego Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and...

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Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0143119230
ISBN13:9780143119234
Release Date:April 2011
Publisher:Penguin Books
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.64 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 4.8" x 7.6"
Age Range:18 years and up
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Big Sur

By Jack Kerouac

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Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0989671488
ISBN13:9780989671484
Release Date:November 2014
Publisher:DeVault-Graves Agency
Length:234 Pages
Weight:0.77 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
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Big Sur [Spanish]

By Jack Kerouac

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Format:Paperback
Language:Spanish
ISBN:8433913379
ISBN13:9788433913371
Release Date:January 2023
Publisher:Editorial Anagrama
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
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Big Sur

By Jack Kerouac

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Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1925788407
ISBN13:9781925788402
Release Date:February 2020
Publisher:Woolf Haus Publishing
Length:210 Pages
Weight:0.71 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Big Sur

By Jack Kerouac

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In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to 'get away to solitude again or die', so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast. The resulting novel, in...

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Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0141198257
ISBN13:9780141198255
Release Date:April 2012
Publisher:PENGUIN
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:7.8" x 0.5" x 5.2"

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Big Sur

By Jack Kerouac

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Format:Mass Market Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:B00ENKMC5O
Release Date:January 1963
Publisher:Bantam
Weight:0.25 lbs.

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Big Sur (Spanish Edition) [Spanish]

By Jack Kerouac

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Format:Paperback
Language:Spanish
ISBN:9879396545
ISBN13:9789879396544
Release Date:January 2014
Publisher:Adriana Hidalgo Editora S.A.
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.46 lbs.
Dimensions:8.4" x 5.8" x 0.7"

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Big Sur / Jack Kerouac

By Jack Kerouac

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Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:B002BACB86
Release Date:January 1962
Publisher:New York Bantam Books First Thus edition January
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.28 lbs.

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Harper Perennial Modern Classics - Big Sur by K...

By Jack Kerouac

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Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:B00OX8O9SO
ISBN13:9780007880294
Release Date:January 2006
Publisher:Harper Perennial
Weight:0.40 lbs.

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Big Sur

By Jack Kerouac

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Big Sur, first published in 1962, was written by author and poet Jack Kerouac in the fall of 1961 over a ten-day period. This Penguin edition reprint recounts Kerouac's (here known by the name of his fictional alter-ego Jack Duluoz) three brief stays at a...

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Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:B0CWJY35Q9
ISBN13:9798869208637
Release Date:February 2024
Publisher:Nighthawk Books
Length:250 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"
Age Range:18 years and up
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Big Sur

By Jack Kerouac

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Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:B0007DK7IA
Release Date:August 1962
Publisher:Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
Length:241 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.

Format: Hardcover

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Big Sur

By Jack Kerouac

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Format:Audio CD
Language:English
ISBN:1441711511
ISBN13:9781441711519
Release Date:December 2009
Publisher:Blackstone Audiobooks
Length:5 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.2" x 5.8"

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Big Sur

By Jack Kerouac

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Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0007880294
ISBN13:9780007880294
Release Date:January 2006
Publisher:Harper Perennial
Weight:0.40 lbs.

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Big Sur [French]

By Jack Kerouac

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Format:Paperback
Language:French
ISBN:2070370941
ISBN13:9782070370948
Release Date:September 1979
Publisher:Gallimard Education
Length:320 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 4.3" x 6.9"

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Big-Sur [Russian]

By Jack Kerouac

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Format:Hardcover
Language:Russian
ISBN:5389130154
ISBN13:9785389130159
Release Date:January 2017
Publisher:Azbuka
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.

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Big Sur

By Jack Kerouac

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Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0450013049
ISBN13:9780450013041
Release Date:January 1972
Publisher:New English Library
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.

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Big Sur

By Jack Kerouac

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Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0241348080
ISBN13:9780241348086
Release Date:January 2018
Publisher:Penguin Classics
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.30 lbs.
Dimensions:7.1" x 0.4" x 4.4"
Age Range:18 years and up
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Big Sur

By Jack Kerouac

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Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0007204981
ISBN13:9780007204984
Release Date:February 2006
Publisher:Harper Perennial
Length:188 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:7.8" x 0.6" x 5.8"

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Big Sur

By Jack Kerouac

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Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0586091572
ISBN13:9780586091579
Release Date:January 2001
Publisher:Paladin
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.

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Big Sur

By Jack Kerouac

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Big Sur was written some time after Kerouac's best-known work, following a visit to northern California and the first ravages of midlife crisis. The book reveals Kerouac's burgeoning problem with alcoholism, the mental duress aggravated by his unwanted fame, and his quest for...

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Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0070342407
ISBN13:9780070342408
Release Date:January 1990
Publisher:McGraw-Hill Companies
Weight:0.55 lbs.

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Big Sur

By Jack Kerouac

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Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0586048847
ISBN13:9780586048849
Release Date:January 1980
Publisher:Panther
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.

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Big Sur Lib/E

By Jack Kerouac

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Format:Audio CD
Language:English
ISBN:0786198877
ISBN13:9780786198870
Release Date:May 2000
Publisher:Blackstone Publishing
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 7.0" x 6.6"

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