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The Portable Beat Reader (The Viking Portable Library)

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The Portable Beat Reader is an excellent and thorough study of the Beat Generation, compiled and edited by Ann Charters, biographer of Jack Kerouac and one of our most notable experts on Beat literature and ideas. This lively work of scholarship goes deeply into the history of the Beat movement, investigating events such as the discovery (by writer William Burroughs) of the word beat to... (read more)

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Tiffany D
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“This book was so boring I had to stop. Its a anthology of all sorts of beatnick lit. I had to read some excerpts for my pop lit class and I couldnt understand a word of it. Something my dad could probably relate to though.”

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  • barry f

    barry f said:

    “could this be a condensed version of "The penguin book of the beats" by Ann Charters
    if it is then I recommend the Penguin version. may be out of print though. here are the details....646 pages. OK now I read the publishing history it is the same book published in the USA penguin American books 1992.
    Ann now lives in london.”

    posted Saturday, October 20 2007
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