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The awakener : a memoir of Kerouac and the fifties / Helen Weaver.

by Weaver, Helen.

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City Lights Books, c2009.

Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.

Beat generation.

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1951-

260 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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.

"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.

Autobiographies.

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