Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac's (1922-1969) On the Road was published in 1957, six years after its completion. It went on to become a bestseller and is considered the quintessential statement of the 1950's literary movement known as the Beat Generation. Born in ... [... more]
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The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, ...
 A good book for so many reasons....: This is a great book for a numer of reasons. I'm going to list a number of them and then write a bit in conclusion. 1. It deals with many of the 'Beats' rather than focusing, as is typical, on Kerouac and Ginsberg and [... more]
$4.99
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Allen Ginsberg from HarperCollins Publishers
Allen Ginsberg, Iconic member of the Beat Generation, and award-winning poet, Ginsberg is the celebrated author of Howl, Deliberate Prose, and many other 20th-century classics. [... more]
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The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation ...
Wonderful Look At The "Beats" Incredible Cultural Influence: For me, this book represented both a challenge and a labor of love, for it was a real culture shock for someone who has enough life experience (and is therefore old enough) to look [... more]
$15.70
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Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and ...
painting Jack's Angel in a bigger canvas: I can't believe more people haven't written reviews of this book! It's essential if you're a Kerouac fan. It's by far the best-written word pictures of the bigger world Jack lived in. In fact, based on how well [... more]
$12.95
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Beat Generation
Dig This: For the record this book is a recently published play written by Kerouac during the era he wrote On The Road. If you have not read Kerouac prior I would not recomend begining with this book, however if you admire his work and The Beat [... more]
$18.00
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The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, ...
A good book for so many reasons....: This is a great book for a numer of reasons. I'm going to list a number of them and then write a bit in conclusion. 1. It deals with many of the 'Beats' rather than focusing, as is typical, on Kerouac and Ginsberg and [... more]
$18.95
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Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation
Buddhism and the Beat Generation: This anthology makes a statement which has been needed for 50 years: the Beat Movement was at its core a spiritual quest. Beat poets and novelists of the 1950s hungered for something more satisfying than the mainstream [... more]
$15.00
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Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and ...
Amazon.com Review: Female Beats wrote poetry, took drugs, went on the road, listened to jazz, and lived on the fringe just as the men did, but their accomplishments are not as widely recognized. This volume attempts to correct this oversight by profiling [... more]
$17.95
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Bukowski and the Beats: A Commentary on the Beat Generation
You can't judge a book by it's cover or title: It just goes to show, you can't judge a book by its cover, or it's title for that matter. This book is just awful. Awful. Bukowski wasn't a Beat, he didn't hang with the Beats and he had nothing in common [... more]
$15.95
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This Is the Beat Generation: New York-San Francisco-Paris
Simply brilliant: I started reading this book with little prior knowledge of the beat movement and authors. I also didn't expect much from the book, thinking that it would probably be a rather academic piece of writing. And what a pleasant surprise it [... more]
$21.95
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Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and ...
painting Jack's Angel in a bigger canvas: I can't believe more people haven't written reviews of this book! It's essential if you're a Kerouac fan. It's by far the best-written word pictures of the bigger world Jack lived in. In fact, based on how well [... more]
$18.50
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