First printing of this classic Beat novel, written on a large continuous scroll over a ten-day period, much the same method Kerouac used when composing ON THE ROAD.
Near fine in a very good plus jacket.
Price: $750.00
"It always makes me proud to love the world somehow — hate's so easy compared."
BIG SUR is in many ways Kerouac's reckoning with his fame. The thinly-veiled novel finds his literary alter ego Jack Duluoz retreating to the sanctuary of the California coast with friend Lorenzo Monsanto (i.e. Lawrence Ferlinghetti), only to discover (as we all do) that you can't really escape yourself. Written in the wake of the popularity of the Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs, et al, BIG SUR is in many ways an elegy to the Beat ideal — that bohemian utopia lost among crowds of beatniks and hep cats, angel-headed hipsters no more.
Read more: Ann Charters, Jack Kerouac: A Bibliography, A17.
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, (1962). 8.25'' x 5.5''. Quarter black cloth over blue boards. In original unclipped ($4.50) dust jacket designed by Janet Halverson. 241pp. Bit of fading to top stain at spine. Jacket lightly rubbed. Else bright and sharp.
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