Ecstasy of The Beats: On The Road to Understanding
Toronto: The Dundurn Group, 2007. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. Fine. Item #006077
Soft cover. 317 pp. B&W photos. Fine condition. Who were the Beats? They certainly weren't the sandal-clad "beatniks" of popular lore. The real Beats were dedicated writers, experimenters, skit improvisers, theorizers, hedonists, close friends, and shapers of the future who hung out at Columbia University and cheap Times Square cafeterias devouring ideas. Travelling widely to see where they lived, author David Creighton enriches the meaning of Kerouac's On The Road and other Beat classics and authors, inclduing Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady, and he also gives a fresh portrait of Carolyn Cassady, "Queen of the Beats."
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