The birth of the beat generation : visionaries, rebels, and hipsters, 1944-1960 / Steven Watson.
Material type: TextSeries: Watson, Steven. Circles of the twentieth century ; Publication details: New York : Pantheon Books, 1995.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 387 p. : ill. ; 19 cmISBN:- 0679423710
- 9780679423713
- 810.9/0054 20
- PS228.B6 W38 1995
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Brings to life the groups of avant-garde writers, artists, and patrons who were keystones of what has come to be called Modernism. Sheds new light on the hard-living, maverick poets and novelists--William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others--who coalesced into the Beats. Illustrations.--From publisher description.
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