The Beat Generation: The Tumultous '50s Movement and Its Impact on Today - Softcover

Cook, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684123711 ISBN 13: 9780684123714

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971

Synopsis

"An excellent, knowledgeable, and culturally important book tracing the root beginnings of the Beat Generation-and telling many of today's disenchanted young how they got where they are and what went before." Larry L. King "The most illuminating guide so far to The Beat Generation. They're all here - Kerouac, Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Gregory Corso, Neil Cassady, William Burroughs and other precursors of the hippies (themselves already part of the past). . . . Cook traces the effect of much of what they did on the counterculture that followed in the Sixties." Playboy "The most complete, relaxed and convincing summary of a movement that has not really died, but only been regenerated on a broader scale among young people all over the world today." Seymour Krim "A first-rate piece of literary journalism that gives us a history of the beats in a way that relates them to now - to rock lyrics (through The Fugs), to LSD (through the Leary-Ginsberg axis), to Woodstock-as-religion, to the new journalism and much more. . ..Not only fine reporting, it is funny and vital in the way Morley Callaghan's That Summer in Paris was funny and vital about another generation." William Kennedy"

About this edition

• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0684123711
• ISBN 13: 9780684123714
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248