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"Family Business" is not only a personal glimpse into the life of one of the great US poets, but also the moving story of a relationship between a father and a son set against the turbulent world of postwar America. As a literary portrait of a father and son, little can match the eloquence and honesty of this collection of letters, written between the years 1944 and 1976. The illuminating correspondence between Allen Ginsberg and his father, Louis, begins when Allen is a precocious, rebellious college student and charts his ascension as a revolutionary icon in poetry. Their letters are filled with affection, respect, and a healthy dose of argumentative zeal - they debate every major political and artistic issue that faced America in over three decades of extraordinary change. Their correspondence also reveals the defining moments that shaped Allen's art - his experimentation with LSD, his various love affairs and obsessions, his travels around the globe. We see, from this unique perspective, the crucial process of a poet's widening experience of the world, and how these experiences are transformed in his art.
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'An absorbing, moving record of an intense relationship' -- New York Times Book Review
'Fascinating, funny, moving' -- Sunday Telegraph
'Our understanding of the best Beat is more complete now' -- Sunday Herald
'Some of the most astonishing correspondence in American Literature' -- Publishers Weekly
'The record of a remarkable, perpetually embattled relationship between a father and a son' -- Financial Times
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'Fascinating, funny, moving' -- Sunday Telegraph
'Our understanding of the best Beat is more complete now' -- Sunday Herald
'Some of the most astonishing correspondence in American Literature' -- Publishers Weekly
'The record of a remarkable, perpetually embattled relationship between a father and a son' -- Financial Times
Michael Schumacher wrote the acclaimed biography of Allen Ginsberg, DHARMA LION, and is also the author of the biographies of Eric Clapton, Phil Ochs, and Francis Ford Coppola. He's been researching FAMILY BUSINESS since 1994, when Ginsberg first agreed to the project.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0747558469
- ISBN 13 9780747558460
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages448
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