Brother-souls : John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat generation /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Charters, Ann
Other Authors: Charters, Samuel, 1929-2015
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2010.
Subjects:
Holmes, John Clellon, > 1926-1988 > Friends and associates.
Kerouac, Jack, > 1922-1969 > Friends and associates.
Holmes, John Clellon, > 1926-1988
Kerouac, Jack, > 1922-1969
1900-1999
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Beats (Persons)
Écrivains américains > 20e siècle > Biographies.
Beatniks.
Beat generation.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Authors, American.
Friendship.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; A Prologue; 1. A Usable Past; 2. The Magic of Words; 3. Whatever World There Would Be; 4. The Stale Bread of Dedication; 5. A Weekend in July; 6. A Kind of Beatness; 7. Neal & Co.; 8. This Particular Kind of Madness; 9. Angelic Visions; 10. In the Temple of the Gods; 11. A Torrent of Words; 12. The Liveitup Kid; 13. Perfect Fools; 14. The Rising Tide of Fame; 15. What Am I Doing Here?; 16. The Horn; 17. Too-Late Words; 18. A Sweet Attention; 19. To the Edge of Eros; 20. Gypsying; 21. A Turn of the Circle; 22. Gone in October; 23. On a Porch in Boulder.

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