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The Awakener : A Memoir of Jack Kerouac and the Fifties
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weaver, Helen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
- Beats (Persons)--20th century--Biography.
- Beats (Persons).
- Authors, American.
- New York (N.Y.)--History--1951-.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Weaver, Helen.
- Kerouac, Jack.
- Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
- Ginsberg, Allen.
- Bruce, Lenny.
- Local Subjects:
- Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (318 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : City Lights Publishers, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Helen Weaver's insightful and riveting memoir of love and friendship with Jack Kerouac and the Beats.
- Contents:
- one PROLOGUE; SUNDAY MORNING; two THE VILLAGE; SULLIVAN STREET; WATCHSTRAPS FOREVER; FARRAR, STRAUS; THE ODD COUPLE; three JACK; A HEAP OF WHEAT; JUST IN TIME; TWO DINNERS; SEASON'S GREETINGS; HAPPY NEW YEAR; CAN'T WE BE FRIENDS?; A ROOM OF MY OWN; four LENNY; FROM BEAT TO HIP; FREE SPEECH; WEBSTER'S UNABRIDGED; THE REAL OBSCENITY; five CHANGES; ENDINGS; MY CLAIM TO FAME; A VISIT TO A POET; THE CITY OF SPINDLES; IT'S ALL A DREAM; REUNION; IMPERMANENCE; AN AMERICAN CLASSIC; six EPILOGUE; JACK'S VOICE; APPENDIX; THE TWO HELENS' DICTIONARY OF HIP; AN ASTROLOGICAL APPENDIX; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780872866447
- 0872866440
- OCLC:
- 870245622
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