"Big Sur (Calif.)" . . "ListenOhio." . . "Beat generation Fiction." . . . . . . . . . . "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. Big Sur was written some time 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.\""@en . . "\"This autobiographical novel continues the adventures of the (older but certainly not mellower) wandering beatnik from 'On the Road.' For a narrator it contains extraordinary difficulties, for the writing flies off into inebriated, overly long sentences that reflect, describe, or just babble forward in a kind of free association. To keep such passages flowing while making sense out of them is no mean feat. Tom Parker pulls it off, erring only infrequently in his interpretation." . "\"This autobiographical novel continues the adventures of the (older but certainly not mellower) wandering beatnik from 'On the Road.' For a narrator it contains extraordinary difficulties, for the writing flies off into inebriated, overly long sentences that reflect, describe, or just babble forward in a kind of free association. To keep such passages flowing while making sense out of them is no mean feat. Tom Parker pulls it off, erring only infrequently in his interpretation."@en . "Audiobooks"@en . . "The story of two poets from the beat generation who live in Big Sur, California." . "The story of two poets from the beat generation who live in Big Sur, California."@en . "Precise account of the extraordinary ravages of alcohol delirium tremens on Kerouac, a superior novelist who had strength to complete his poetic narrative, a task few scribes so afflicted have accomplished. Here we meet San Francisco's poets and recognize hero Dean Moriarty ten years after On the Road. Jack Kerouac was a writer, as his great peer W.S. Burroughs says, and here at the peak of his suffering humorous genius he wrote through his misery to end with \"Sea,\" a brilliant poem appended, on the hallucinatory sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Big Sur" . "Big Sur"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Electronic audio books"@en . . . . . "Downloadable audio books"@en . "Autobiographical fiction"@en . "Autobiographical fiction" . . . "Big sur"@en . "Electronic books" . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . . . . . . "Alcoholic psychoses." . . "Beat generation." . . "hoopla digital." . . "San Francisco (Calif.)" . . "Alcoholic psychoses Fiction." . .