Big Sur As the girls struggle with

As the girls struggle with their pasts and the people they've become

exhausted from holding the family--and the family business--together

the crash propelling him to move Jane off the grid to raise her in a Waldenesque utopia

Concise and accessible

Big Sur As the girls struggle withA poignant masterpiece of wrenching personal expression from the acclaimed author of On the Road "In many ways, particularly in the lyrical immediacy that is his distinctive glory, this is Kerouac's best book . . . certainly he has never displayed more 'gentle sweetness.'" San Francisco Chronicle Jack Kerouac's alter ego Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Francisco and an isolated cabin