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Weaver, Helen.
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Weaver, Helen.
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
Bruce, Lenny.
Beat generation.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1951-
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Weaver, Helen.
Weaver, Helen.
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
Bruce, Lenny.
Beat generation.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1951-
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The awakener : a memoir of Kerouac and the fifties / Helen Weaver.
by
Weaver, Helen.
City Lights Books, c2009.
Call #:
921 W363a
Subjects
Weaver, Helen.
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
Bruce
,
Lenny
.
Beat generation.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1951-
ISBN:
9780872865051
0872865053
Description:
260 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
1. Prologue -- Sunday Morning -- 2. The Village -- Sullivan Street -- Watchstraps Forever -- Farrar, Straus -- The Odd Couple -- 3. Jack -- A Heap of Wheat -- Just in Time -- Two Dinners -- Season's Greetings -- Happy New Year -- Can't We Be Friends? -- A Room of my Own -- 4.
Lenny
-- From Beat to Hip -- Free Speech -- Webster's Unabridged -- The Real Obscenity -- 5. Changes -- Endings -- My Claim to Fame -- A Visit to a Poet -- The City of Spindles -- It's All A Dream -- Reunion -- Impermanence -- An American Classic -- 6. Epilogue -- Jack's Voice -- Appendix. The Dictionary of Hip -- Appendix. An Astrological Appendix.
Summary:
"The Awakener is Helen Weaver's memoir of her adventures with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg,
Lenny
Bruce
, and other wild characters from the New York City of the fifties and early sixties, Sheltered but rebellious, Weaver survived a repressive upbringing in Scarsdale and landed in Greenwich Village just in time for the birth of rock 'n' roll - and the counterculture movement known as the Beat Generation."--BOOK JACKET.
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