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Through poetry, fiction, essays, song lyrics, letters and memoirs, this authoritative single-volume collection of Beat literature captures the triumphant energy of a movement that swept through American letters with hurricane force. Featuring: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs,... read more
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Summary edit
This is a collection of many Beat writers, spanning over many places and times. The original group is featured, Kerouac, Ginsburg, Cassidy and Burroughs. There are also the more obscure writers that history often forgets about. This is the way to start reading the Beats, with a collection as... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters/People edit
- Jack Kerouac: Add a description of this character.
- Allen Ginsberg
- Neal Cassady
- William Burroughs
- Gary Snyder
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Walt Whitman
- Charlie Parker
- Philip Whalen
- Norman Mailer
- Michael McClure
- Lucien Carr
- Diane Di Prima
- Robert Lowell
- Gregory Corso
- William Carlos Williams
Setting & Locations edit
- United States
- New York City
- San Francisco
- Mexico City
- Denver
- Chicago
- California
- Paris
- Berkeley
- Newark
- Japan
- China
- New Jersey
- Lower East Side
- West Coast
- Oregon
- Washington
- Bogota
- Europe
- Texas
- Portland, Oregon
- Iowa
- Manhattan
- Massachusetts
- Illinois
- Colorado
- Nebraska
- Ecuador
- Harlem
- Russia
- Long Island
- Brooklyn
- Greenwich Village
- Missouri
First Sentence edit
The poet Gary Snyder once joked there was no Beat Generation-it consisted of only three or four people, and four people don't make up a generation.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Ann Charters (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0670838853
Page Count: 640
Publisher: Viking
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0670838853
Page Count: 640
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Movements & Periods › Beat Generation
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Collections & Readers
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Anthologies
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
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