Vex overcame adversity to become a source of hope for thousands of young people
from the bestselling creators of The Lion Inside
and some have only their own goals in mind
a twenty-year-old from Galway working as a maid at Finn's Hotel
'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 Vex overcame adversity to become'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