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Description edit
FAMILY BUSINESS is not only a personal glimpse into the life of one of the great US poets, but also the moving story of a relationship between a father and a son set against the turbulent world of postwar America. As a literary portrait of a father and son, little can match the eloquence and... read more
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- Allen Allen Ginsberg: Add a description of this character.
- Louis Ginsberg
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- Jack Kerouac
- Naomi
- Edith Ginsberg
- Peter Orlovsky
- Einstein
- Hitler
- William Burroughs
- Eugene
- Ferlinghetti
- Gregory Corso
- Carr
- Gary Snyder
- Whitman
- Neal Cassady
- Kennedy
- Berrigan
- Stalin
- Blake
- Lucien
- Kammerer
- Grandma
- Harold
- Bob Dylan
- Russell
- Kafka
- Leroi Jones
- Castro
- Voznesensky
- Johnson
- Auden
- N. Y. Times
Setting & Locations edit
- Russia
- Israel
- Cuba
- South America
- India
- Paris
- New York
- China
- Europe
- S. Vietnam
- Hungary
- California
- Usa
- London
- San Francisco
- Venice
- France
- Paterson
- Mexico
- Moscow
- Prague
- England
- Italy
- Newark
- Rome
- Greece
- Congo
- United States
- Czechoslovakia
- Japan
- Berkeley
- Columbia
- Cherry Valley
- Boulder
- Algeria
- Calcutta
- Long Island
- Benares
- Germany
- Colorado
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- Athens
- Africa
- Naples
- S.f.
- Bombay
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0747557241
Page Count: 448
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0747557241
Page Count: 448
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › History & Criticism
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( G ) › Ginsberg, Allen
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Poetry › Criticism
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs
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