Big Sur FROM THE PUBLISHER
Big Surﾽs a humane, precise account of the extraordinary ravages of alcohol delirium tremens on Kerouac, a superior novelist who had strength to complete his poetic narrative, a task few scribes so afflicted have accomplishedothers crack up. Here we meet San Franciscoﾽs poets and recognize hero Dean Moriarty ten years after On the Road. Jack Kerouac was a ﾽwriter,ﾽ as his great peer W.S. Burroughs says, and here at the peak of his suffering humorous genius he wrote through his misery to end with ﾽSea,ﾽ a brilliant poem appended, on the hallucinatory sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur.Allen Ginsberg
FROM THE CRITICS
AudioFile - Yuri Rasovsky
This autobiographical novel continues the adventures of the (older but certainly not mellower) wandering beatnik from ON THE ROAD. For a narrator it contains extraordinary difficulties, for the writing flies off into inebriated, overly long sentences that reflect, describe or just babble forward in a kind of free association. To keep such passages flowing while making sense out of them is no mean feat. Tom Parker pulls it off, erring only infrequently in his interpretation. He even manages to sound as if he were enjoying himself. The production is clean but tinny, possibly dampening the pleasure of home listeners, but hardly bothering drivers listening over traffic noise. Y.R. ﾽAudioFile, Portland, Maine
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