Big Sur by Elizabeth Graham released on Jul 25, 1985 is available now for purchase.
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 forth between wild binges ...
Retiring to a seaside cabin near San Francisco, Jack Duluoz looks for tranquility, but finds only horror and despair.
It is a space that challenges the way most Americans think of nature, of people’s relationship to nature, and of what in fact makes a place “wild.” This book highlights today’s intricate and ambiguous intersections of class, the ...
... here's what I would do to deal with the sword of Rorie More” (the portrait shows old Rorie with his Highlands flinger) “I'd get inside him with a dirk and stab him to my pleasure like an animal” and bleary with hangover I realize ...
This book combines outstanding photographs from 40 collections, ranging from family albums to institutional archives.
This book is a valuable contribution to California’s environmental history."—Stephanie Pincetl, author of Transforming California: A Political History of Land Use and Development "With Big Sur, Brooks has made an outstanding ...
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This book is a valuable contribution to California’s environmental history."—Stephanie Pincetl, author of Transforming California: A Political History of Land Use and Development "With Big Sur, Brooks has made an outstanding ...
Big Sur
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 ...