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Big Sur.
de KEROUAC, Jack
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London, United Kingdom
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New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy,, 1962. First edition, first printing, of Kerouac's "comeback" novel, a stark depiction of the self-destructive trajectory of his life after the success of On the Road. "Craving both solitude and genuine companionship, his fictional counterpart Jack Duluoz careens from the retreat of a cabin at Big Sur to San Francisco's North Beach and back. The novel offers one of the most arresting treatments of alcoholism in modern literature, and although it ends with the narrator experiencing the vision of the Cross of Christian redemption, Kerouac himself was unable to recover from the depths he plumbed in his writing" (ANB). Octavo. Original black cloth backing blue marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge blue. With dust jacket. Ink stamp of the Bookstall, Vancouver, on rear free endpaper; neat ink annotation on verso of jacket. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped, spine ends just sunned, spot of wear to lower corner of front cover; jacket price-clipped with neat tape repair on verso, a few faint marks, edges a little nicked: a near-fine copy in very good jacket. Charters A17.
Sinopsis
Big Sur is a 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac that recounts the time when the author (called by the name of his fictional alter-ego Jack Duluoz) visited a cabin in Big Sur owned by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Duluoz stayed for a few days, struggling through a nervous breakdown complicated by alcoholism.
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- Peter Harrington
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 169018
- Título
- Big Sur.
- Autor
- KEROUAC, Jack
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Lugar de publicación
- New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy,
- Fecha de publicación
- 1962
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Sobre el vendedor
Peter Harrington
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
London
Sobre Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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