In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South
The Edge is the real deal
from the bestselling creators of The Lion Inside
'A swashbuckling thrill ride of a debut with protagonists who'll have you on the edge of your seat
'A major book that I suspect will come to be considered among the essential memoirs of this vexing decade' New York Times Book Review
Big Sur: Jack Kerouac (Great Kerouac) [2018] paperback Condition:New In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of'Kerouac's grittiest novel sensual and uninhibited' The New York Times Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 'King of the Beats', needs peace, quiet and sobriety: surrounded and outnumbered he has to 'get away to solitude again or die'. Amidst the wild beauty of the Californian landscape, Kerouac struggles to come to terms with his