Format:
Book
Secondary title:
The Viking portable library; Variation: Viking portable library.
Author(s):
Charters, Ann
Keyword(s):
American literature -- 20th century.
Beat generation -- Literary collections.
Beat Generation.
Amerikaans.
American
20th century
Beat
Literary collections
Year:
1992
Pages:
xxxvi, 642 p.
Publisher:
Viking
Publisher location:
New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
Accession number:
23649998
Label:
Box 22
Notes:
21 cm.
The best minds of a generation : East Coast beats -- Heart beat: enter Neal Cassady -- Constantly risking absurdity: some San Francisco renaissance poets -- A few blue words to the wise: other fellow travelers -- Tales of beatnik glory: memoirs and posthumous tributes -- The unspeakable visions of the individual: later work.
Includes bibliographical references./ Also issued online.
edited by Ann Charters.
Book
Language:
English
Call number:
LC: PS536; Dewey: 810.8/0054
ISBN:
ISBN: 0670838853; 9780670838851; 0140151028; 9780140151022 LCCN: 91-16155
Abstract:
Compiles selections from every major writer of the Beat Generation, from William Burroughs' "Naked Lunch" to pieces from the Beat writers of the seventies and eighties.