This is the Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, ParisSecker & Warburg, 1999 - 320 pages Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs had all seen the inside of mental hospitals and prisons by the age of 30. This book charts the transformation of these experiences into a literary movement that spread across the globe in the decade and a half that followed World War II. |
Contents
The first cutups | 11 |
Behind the beat Hipikats | 36 |
Behind the beat Naked Neal | 65 |
Copyright | |
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This is the Beat Generation: New York - San Francisco - Paris James Campbell No preview available - 2000 |
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