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Brother-souls : John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat generation /
John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were--in Holmes's words--"Brother Souls." Both were neophyte novelists, hungry for literary fame but just as hungry to find a new way of responding to their exper...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
c2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were--in Holmes's words--"Brother Souls." Both were neophyte novelists, hungry for literary fame but just as hungry to find a new way of responding to their experiences in a postwar American society that for them had lost its direction. Late one night as they sat talking, Kerouac spontaneously created the term "Beat Generation" to describe this new attitude they felt stirring around them. Brother Souls is the remarkable chronicle of this cornerstone friendsh |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 441 p., [16] p. of plates ) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781628467710 1628467711 9781628465129 1628465123 1621031667 9781621031666 1282821261 9781282821262 9786612821264 6612821264 |