Book · 1962 · Fiction

Big Sur

Name: Big Sur
Author: Jack Kerouac

Warbler Press · 190 pages

★ 4.8 editorial score

Fame arrived and Kerouac could not survive it. His narrator retreats to a friend's cabin above the Pacific to dry out, drinks instead, and comes apart in a night of delirium.

Genre

Autobiography and memoir Beat Roman a clef

Medium

Novel

Subject

Relationships Alcoholism Worldly success

Setting

San Francisco

Time

1962

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