Big Sur

<p>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 ever-changing states of consciousness which culminate in a powerful religious experience. <em>Big</em><em> Sur</em> was written sometime after Jack Kerouac's best-known works following a visit to northern California and the first feelings of midlife crisis. Kerouac stayed for several weeks in a cabin in Big Sur California and with friends in San Francisco. Upon returning home he wrote this account in a two-week period. Critic Richard Meltzer referred to Big Sur as Kerouac's ‘masterpiece and one of the great great works of the English language.”</p>