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Ann Charters
645 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780140169102
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication date: Not specified
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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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Ann Charters
645 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780140169102
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication date: Not specified
Description
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...