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Ecstasy of the beats : on the road to understanding /
Who were the beats? Not the sandle-clad "beatniks" of popular lore but dedicated writers, experimenters, skit improvisers, theorizers, hedonists, close friends, bisexual free lovers, shapers of the future. The beats hung out at Columbia university and cheap Times Square cafeterias, devouri...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
Dundurn Group,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Who were the beats? Not the sandle-clad "beatniks" of popular lore but dedicated writers, experimenters, skit improvisers, theorizers, hedonists, close friends, bisexual free lovers, shapers of the future. The beats hung out at Columbia university and cheap Times Square cafeterias, devouring ideas. David Creighton shows how the world has taken up their message. In Ecstasy of the Beats he gives a fresh portrait of Carolyn Cassady, "Queen of the Beats," and of the four major Beat writers. Jack Kerouac's On the Road gave a pattern of adventure to restless youth, Allen Ginsberg donned a prophet's r |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps, portraits |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781554881499 1554881498 9781459720466 1459720466 |