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The Typewriter Is Holy

The Typewriter Is Holy

The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation

by Bill Morgan
Hardback
Publication Date: 16/09/2010

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In this highly entertaining work, Bill Morgan,a leading authority on the movement and a man who personally knew most of the Beats, narrates the history of these writers as primarily a social group of friends, tracing their origins together during the World War II years to the full blossoming of their notoriety in the late 1950s to their profound influence on the social upheaval of the 1960s. Indeed, it is impossible to comprehend the sixties without first grasping the importance of the social ripples set in motion by the Beats a decade earlier.

This is a sweeping, indispensable story about the discontented free spirits of the Beat Movement. We watch their peripatetic lives, their sexual misadventures, their ambivalent response to fame. We are reminded above all that while their personal lives may have not have been holy, their typewriters and their lasting words very much were.
ISBN:
9781416592426
9781416592426
Category:
History
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
16-09-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Atria Books
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
320
Dimensions (mm):
235x159x30mm
Weight:
0.55kg

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