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Ed Sanders’s mock-heroic (and heroic) odyssey follows poet, filmmaker, and activist Sam Thomas, editor of Dope, Fucking, and Social Change, and a variegated cast of castoffs, dropouts, peaceniks, freakniks, and mendicant filthniks, from Kansas through the beatnik and hippie countercultures of... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Sam Thomas: Add a description of this character.
- Talbot Jenkins
- Johnny Ray Slage
- Annie Maketorch
- Vera Kommissarzhevskaia
- Claudia Pred
- Debbie Harnigan
- John Barrett
- Cynthia Pruitt
- Lorna
- Becky Levy
- Rose Snyder
- Andrew Kliver
- Nelson Saite
- Louise Adams
- Zack
- Barton
- Kennedy
- Chessman
- Wanda
- Pickens
- Beckett
- Paul
- Harry
- Mary Heath
- Cione
- Dylan
- Eric
- Johnson
- Manfred
- Blake
- Enid
Setting & Locations edit
- New York City
- Lower East Side
- Alabama
- Kansas
- San Francisco
- Birmingham
- Mississippi
- Sappho
- Bixden County
- Hempune
- Stanley
- Washington Square
- California
- Rock House
- Midwest
- Psychedelicatessen
- White House
- Vietnam
- Road
- Goof City
- Cuba
- Klan
- Oregon
- Nebraska
- Los Angeles
- Memphis
- Ludlow Street
- Luminous Animal
- Alcatraz
- Manhattan
- Tennessee
- Tintagel
- Europe
- London
- Camelot
- Russia
- Chicago
- Ethrom
- Llaso
- Rienzi
- Tristan
- New Jersey
- Tompkins Square Park
First Sentence edit
When she married the dirty beatnik, the calamity of it spiraled upward and outward through the extant family tree.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Ed Sanders (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: December 8, 2004
ISBN: 978-1560256526
Page Count: 784 pages
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: December 8, 2004
ISBN: 978-1560256526
Page Count: 784 pages
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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