The Penguin Book of the Beats by Ann Charters
The Penguin Book of the Beats

Ann Charters

The Penguin Book of the Beats

Ann Charters

645 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction classics literary reflective medium-paced
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Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was beat. Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Che...

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