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The typewriter is holy : the complete, uncensored history of the Beat generation / Bill Morgan.
Van Pelt Library PS228.B6 M58 2010
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morgan, Bill, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beats (Persons).
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 291 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Free Press hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Free Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Friendship and murder
- The Lumpen world
- The Adonis of Denver
- Insanity
- The subterraneans
- Literary lives
- The name of a generation
- To the West coast
- Nightmare of Moloch
- The six gallery
- Desolation and loneliness
- Censorship and vindication
- Fame
- The threads loosen
- The circle widens
- Cut-ups
- Bitter fruits
- Setting the global stage
- A culture turned upside down
- The Sixties
- The end of the road
- Aftermath
- Respectability
- Acceptance
- Postscript.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-273) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781416592426
- 1416592423
- OCLC:
- 456729615
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