Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

Big Sur is Jack Kerouac's 1962 novel, written in the fall of 1961, over a ten-day period, with Kerouac typewriting onto a teletype roll. It recounts the events surrounding Kerouac's (here known by the name of his fictional alter-ego Jack Duluoz) three brief sojourns to a cabin in Bixby Canyon, Big Sur, California, owned by Kerouac's friend and Beat poet, Lawrence Ferlinghetti; at the same time dealing with his increased drinking and declining mental health. 

It is Kerouac’s first novel to be fully written following his success in the late 1950s, and thus departs from his previous fictionalized autobiographical series in that the character Duluoz is shown as a popular, published author; most of Kerouac's previous novels instead portray him as a bohemian traveller.

Paperback

Published by New English Library, Underground Classics

First NEL PAPERBACK EDITION, September 1972