Jack Kerouac, Big Sur
A favourite Kerouac book it haunted me and still does somehow. I was a curmudgeonly little awkward squad (as my parent’s called me) so didn’t read On The Road first but the Subterraneans and then The Dharma Bums then followed by On The Road and then found a copy of The Town and The City (his first novel and as an art student Book of Dreams which I took to our poetry group at college to have a dream dairy session. I came to Big Sur late and it hit me for six in its beautiful descriptions of the country side and the sea around that part of California
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