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The Beat Generation FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Angelheaded Hipsters
Price: $19.99
Publisher: Backbeat Books : September 2015
Seller ID: 416723
ISBN-13: 9781617136016
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: New
The Beat Generation FAQ is an informative and entertaining look at the enigmatic authors and cutting-edge works that shaped this fascinating cultural and literary movement. Disillusioned with the repression and conformity encompassing post-World War II life in the United States, the Beat writers sought creative alternatives to the mind-numbing banality of modern culture. Beat Generation writers were no strangers to controversy: Both Allen Ginsberg's prophetic, William Blakean-style poem "Howl" (1956) and William S. Burroughs' groundbreaking novel Naked Lunch (1959) led to obscenity trials, whi...
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