The Portable Beat Reader - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Various, Ann Charters (Editor)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2003-07-29Pages:688
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780142437537ISBN-10:142437530UPC:9780142437537Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:7.76 x 6.36 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0803Product ID:SCK73JZWGB
The Portable Beat Reader
Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy. It was the junk-sick surrealism of William Burroughs; the wild, Whitmanesque poetry of Allen Ginsberg; and the lumberjack Zen of Gary Snyder. The...
Series: Penguin Classics
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780142437537ISBN-10:142437530UPC:9780142437537Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:7.76 x 6.36 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0803Product ID:SCK73JZWGB
Ann Charters, a Jack Kerouac and Beat Generation scholar, is professor of American Literature emerita at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. in 1966, she worked with Kerouac to compile his bibliography, and was the only biographer who interviewed him about the circumstances in which he wrote his books. She is the author of his first biography, Kerouac, in 1973. She edited his posthumous...
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