The Portable Beat Reader - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670838853 ISBN 13: 9780670838851

Publisher: Viking, 1992

Synopsis

Kerouac, Burroughs and Ginsberg are all here in this comprehensive anthology of the writing that electrified and, at times, outraged America in the 1950s and '60s. Includes selections from all the major writers of the Beat Generation, plus a section of memoirs and posthumous tributes.

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Review:

"The best introduction I know of America's liveliest postwar literary movement"

"A deft and definitive collection. It catches the flavor of playful, serious defiance of the whole generation." --Gary Snyder

About the Author:

Ann Charters, professor of English at the University of Connecticut, has been interested in Beat writers since 1956. After completing her doctorate she worked with Jack Kerouac to compile his bibliography. She has written a literary study of Charles Olson and biographies of black entertainer Bert Williams, and (with her husband) the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. She was the general editor of the two-volume encyclopaedia The Beats: Literary Bohemians In Postwar America and has published a collection of her photographic portraits of well-known writers in the book Beats & Company. She has also edited Jack Kerouac's On the Road for Penguin Modern Classics.

Ann Charters, professor of English at the University of Connecticut, has been interested in Beat writers since 1956. After completing her doctorate she worked with Jack Kerouac to compile his bibliography. She has written a literary study of Charles Olson and biographies of black entertainer Bert Williams, and (with her husband) the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. She was the general editor of the two-volume encyclopaedia The Beats: Literary Bohemians In Postwar America and has published a collection of her photographic portraits of well-known writers in the book Beats & Company. She has also edited Jack Kerouac's On the Road for Penguin Modern Classics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0670838853
• ISBN 13: 9780670838851
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608
• Editor: Charters Ann