"Big Sur (Calif.)" . . . . . . . . . . . "Big Sur is the portrait of a place - one of the most colourful in the United States - and of the extraordinary people [the author] knew there: writers (and writers who did not write), mystics seeking truth in meditation (and the not-so-saintly looking for sex-cults or celebrity), sophisticated children and adult innocents; geniuses, cranks and the unclassifiable, like Contrad Moricand, the \"Devil in Paradise\" who is one of Miller's greatest character studies. -Back cover."@en . "Big Sur and the oranges of Hieronymus Bosch"@en .