Brother-souls : John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat generation / / Ann Charters and Samuel Charters
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| Autore: |
Charters Ann <1936->
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| Titolo: |
Brother-souls : John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat generation / / Ann Charters and Samuel Charters
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| Pubblicazione: | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (474 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.54 |
| B | |
| Soggetto topico: | Authors, American - 20th century |
| Beats (Persons) | |
| Altri autori: |
ChartersSamuel Barclay
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| 24. Final ChorusNotes; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 friendship and the life |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Brother-souls |
| ISBN: | 1-62103-166-7 |
| 1-282-82126-1 | |
| 9786612821264 | |
| 1-60473-580-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813566403321 |
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