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The Beat Bookby Anne Waldman, Allen GinsbergISBN 1570624275 (1-57062-427-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beat Book'Book summary:Here is an unusually diverse collection of Beat voices, including not only Kerouac, Burroughs, and Ginsberg, but Amiri Baraka, Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure, Peter Orlovsky, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen. Also included are short biographies of the writers and a "Literary Guide to Beat Places" around the world. [via]
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The Beat Book : Poems and Fiction from the Beat Generationby Anne Waldman, Allen GinsbergISBN 1570620008 (1-57062-000-8)
Hardcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963by Barry MilesISBN 080211668X (0-8021-1668-X)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963'Book summary:Called "a vivid picture of literary life along the Left Bank in the late 1950s and early 1960s . . . [and] fun reading" by Library Journal, The Beat Hotel is a delightful chronicle of a remarkable moment in American literary history. From the Howl obscenity trial to the invention of the cut-up technique, Barry Miles's extraordinary narrative chronicles the feast of ideas that was Paris, where the Beats took awestruck audiences with Duchamp and Celine, and where some of their most important work came to fruition -- Ginsberg's "Kaddish" and "To Aunt Rose"; Corso's The Happy Birthday of Death; and Burroughs's Naked Lunch. Based on firsthand accounts from diaries, letters, and many original interviews, The Beat Hotel is an intimate look at a place that, the San Francisco Chronicle has written, "gave the spirit of Dean Moriarty and the genius of Genet and Duchamp a place to dream together of new worlds over a glass of vin ordinaire". [via]
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Big Surby Jack KerouacISBN 0140168125 (0-14-016812-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Big Sur'Book summary:Kerouac's gritty, moving take on the destruction of his own myth, as the King of the Beats approaches middle age! Unmistakably autobiographical, Big Sur, Kerouac's ninth novel, was written as the 'King of the Beats' was approaching middle-age and reflects his struggle to come to terms with his own myth. The magnificent and moving story of Jack Duluoz, a man blessed by great talent and cursed with an urge towards self-destruction, Big Sur is at once Kerouac's toughest and his most humane work. [via]
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Book of Dreamsby Jack Kerouac, Robert CreeleyISBN 0872863808 (0-87286-380-8)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of Dreams'Book summary:San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: City Lights Books, 1981. Book. VG. Soft cover. Reprint. Jack Kerouac's private dream record of what he saw in his sleep, "the poetic raw material of the Kerouac sage, the substrata of his novelas and commentary upon them," dedicated to "the roses of the unborn.'' [via]
Collected Poems 1947-1980by Allen GinsbergISBN 1568497059 (1-56849-705-9)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Poems 1947-1980'Book summary:Tortured by the paranoia and mental illness of his immigrant mother, and by his own homosexuality in a society that was homophobic, Allen Ginsberg's early work was as much a measure of his self-loathing as his detestation of social hypocrisy and injustice. His poems reached depths of humiliation and shame that presaged a mental breakdown, followed by recovery with the help of Buddhist philosophy. Ginsberg's political commitment was fired by his involvement with Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder and others in the Beat movement, a poetry of social protest that refused perceived elitist boundaries. Despite a tendency toward propaganda, Ginsberg's best poetry is infused with satiric comedy and cheerful self-parody, and is most readily appreciated when read aloud. [via]
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- Collected Poems 1947-1980: ISBN 0060914947 (0-06-091494-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Collected Poems 1947-1980: ISBN 0060153415 (0-06-015341-5)
Hardcover, Harper & Row - Collected Poems 1947-1980: ISBN 0809591324 (0-8095-9132-4)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr - Collected Poems 1947-1980: ISBN 1568497059 (1-56849-705-9)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
- Collected Poems 1947-1980: ISBN 0060914947 (0-06-091494-7)
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A Coney Island of the Mind: Poemsby Lawrence FerlinghettiISBN 0811200418 (0-8112-0041-8)
Softcover, New Directions
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Desolate Angel - A Biography : Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation and Americaby Dennis McNallyISBN 0385300956 (0-385-30095-6)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and Americaby Dennis McNallyISBN 0306812223 (0-306-81222-3)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America'Book summary:Jack Kerouac-"King of the Beats," unwitting catalyst for the '60s counterculture, groundbreaking author-was a complex and compelling man: a star athlete with a literary bent; a spontaneous writer vilified by the New Critics but adored by a large, youthful readership; a devout Catholic but aspiring Buddhist; a lover of freedom plagued by crippling alcoholism. Desolate Angel follows Kerouac from his childhood in the mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, to his early years at Columbia where he met Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady, beginning a four-way friendship that became a lifelong obsession. Kerouac's frenetic cross-country journeys, experiments with drugs and sexuality, travels to Mexico and Tangier, and years of failure, frustration, and depression are recounted with detail and sensitivity. Desolate Angel is a harrowing, compassionate portrait of a man and artist set against an extraordinary social backdrop.[via]More editions of Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America:
Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beats and Americaby Dennis McNallyISBN 0394500113 (0-394-50011-3)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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Desolation Angelsby John KerouacISBN 1573225053 (1-57322-505-3)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desolation Angels'Book summary:With the publication of On the Road in 1957, Jack Kerouac became at once the spokesman and hero of the Beat Generation. Along with such visionaries as William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac changed the face of American literature, igniting a counterculture revolution that even now, decades later, burns brighter than ever in Desolation Angels.[via]
In one of the major cinematic events of 2012, Jack Kerouac's legendary Beat classic, On the Road, finally hits the big screen. Directed by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries; Paris, Je T'Aime) and with a cast of some of Hollywood's biggest young stars, including Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga), Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams (Julie & Julia, The Fighter), Tom Sturridge, and Viggo Mortensen (the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Road), the film will attract new fans who will be inspired by Kerouac's revolutionary writing. -
Dharma Bumsby Jack KerouacISBN 0140042520 (0-14-004252-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dharma Bums'Book summary:One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book's main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who was a close friend and whose interest in Buddhism influenced Kerouac. This book is a must-read for any serious Kerouac fan. [via]
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Doctor Saxby Jack KerouacISBN 0802130496 (0-8021-3049-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doctor Sax'Book summary:Of all his books, Doctor Sax was the one Jack Kerouac loved the most. He began writing it in 1948, but wrote the greater part of it in 1952, when he was staying in Mexico with William Burroughs. Told through the character of Kerouac's fictional alter ego, Jack Duluoz, the novel tells the story of his extraordinary childhood in Massachusetts. A clever and rebellious boy, playing among the river weeds and railroad tracks, going to the movies, reading pulp comics and watching cartoons, Jack creates an imaginary world of strange, new possibilities. Within this world lies the weird and wonderful Doctor Sax [via]
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Doctor Sax and the Great World Snakeby Jack KerouacISBN 0972973303 (0-9729733-0-3)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doctor Sax and the Great World Snake'Book summary:Jack Kerouac gives free reign to the powers of his soaring imagination in this previously unpublished screenplay adaptation of his mystical, vision-novel Doctor Sax. Basing the haunting tale in true reflections of his 1930's childhood growing up in the industrial milltown of Lowell, Massachusetts. Kerouac spins out a dark cosmology as "concentrations of evil" gather -- vampires, gnomes, spiders, werewolves of the soul, "leerers at the glad heart of others" -- aspiring to destroy mankind. Doctor Sax -- alchemist of the night and friend of the children -- is the caped crusader who stands against the darkness.
Come along on an audio adventure, as young Jacky Duluoz leads you on an apocalyptic journey to confront the Wizard and the Great World Snake.
Special Multi-Media Edition includes:
- 2 CDS audio version of screenplay
- Unabridged original screenplay text
- 74 illustrations by Richard Sala
- Readers Include: . Jim Carroll . Graham Parker
. Ellis Paul . Lawrence Ferlinghetti
. Kate Pierson . Bill Janovitz
. Robert Creeley . Robert HunterMusic by Blue Note recording artist John Medeski [via]
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The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971by Allen GinsbergISBN 0872860639 (0-87286-063-9)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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Ghost of Chanceby William S. BurroughsISBN 1852424575 (1-85242-457-5)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ghost of Chance'Book summary:[via]Ghost of Chance is an adventure story set in the jungle of Madagascar and filled with the obsessions that mark the work of the man who Norman Mailer once called, the only American writer possessed by genius. While tripping through the author's trademark concernsdrugs, paranoia, and lemurs, this short novel tells an important story about environmental devastation in a way that only Burroughs can.
Born in 1914, William S. Burroughs is the author of Junky, Naked Lunch and The Soft Machine and many other contemporary classics. A major figure of 20th century American literature, Burroughs died in 1997.
Go: A Novelby John C. HolmesISBN 1560254246 (1-56025-424-6)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Good Blonde & Othersby Jack Kerouac, Donald E. AllenISBN 0912516224 (0-912516-22-4)
Softcover, Grey Fox Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Blonde & Others'Book summary:[via]In these uncollected writings Jack Kerouac portrays himself in his life. He hitches a ride to San Francisco with a blonde, goes on the road with photographer Robert Frank, rides bus through the Northwest and Montana, records the blues of an old Negro hobo, talks about the Beats and how it all began, gives his "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" and defends his novel The Subterraneans, compares Shakespeare and James Joyce, describes the cafeterias and subways of Manhattan, goes to a ballgame and a prize fight, and reflects on Christmas in New England, on Murnau's Nosferatu, on jazz & bop, and tells us what he's thinking about.
Table of ContentsWalking to Eden
Optical Terror
The Impossible Genus
On Returning from Chiapas
Alphabets and Emperors
Optical Pleasure
Haunting by Water
Mapping Paris
The Monstrous and the Marvelous
The Death Cunt of Deep Dell
Sortilege
Books of Nature
A Dream
Manifesto in Voices
Acknowledgments
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Howl, and Other Poemsby Allen GinsbergISBN 0872860175 (0-87286-017-5)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howl, and Other Poems'Book summary:The epigraph for Howl is from Walt Whitman: "Unscrew the locks from the doors!/Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" Announcing his intentions with this ringing motto, Allen Ginsberg published a volume of poetry which broke so many social taboos that copies were impounded as obscene, and the publisher, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, was arrested. The court case that followed found for Ginsberg and his publisher, and the publicity made both the poet and the book famous. Ginsberg went on from this beginning to become a cultural icon of sixties radicalism. This works seminal place in the culture is indicated in Czeslaw Milosz's poetic tribute to Ginsberg: "Your blasphemous howl still resounds in a neon desert where the human tribe wanders, sentenced to unreality". [via]
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Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, With Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Publby Allen Ginsberg, Barry MilesISBN 0060926112 (0-06-092611-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, With Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Publ'Book summary:Published in 1956 as the title poem of Allen Ginsberg's first collection, "Howl" is a prophetic masterpiece that overcame censorship trails to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. The annotated Howl is the poet's own re-creation of the long process of composition of a revolutionary poem that broke new ground in America poetry through its expansive poetic form, tonal range, and freshness of spirit.
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Junkyby William S. Burroughs, Allen GinsbergISBN 0140043519 (0-14-004351-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Junky'Book summary:[via]Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junk, his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone. This book brings them vividly to life again; it is an unvarnished field report from the American postwar underground. For this definitive 50th-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has painstakingly re-created the author's original text, word by word, from archival typescripts. Here for the first time are Burroughs's own unpublished Introduction and an entire omitted chapter, along with many "lost" passages and auxiliary texts by Allen Ginsberg and others. Harris's comprehensive Introduction reveals the composition history of Junk's text and places its contents against a lively historical background.
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Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960by Allen GinsbergISBN 0872860191 (0-87286-019-1)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960'Book summary:[via]Great strange visionary poems by the author of Howl, in the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century . . .
In the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century suffering anguish of separation from my own body and its natural infinity of feeling its own self one with all self, I instinctively seeking to reconstitute that blissful union which I experience so rarely. I took it to be supernatural an gave it holy Name thus made hymn laments of longing and litanies of triumphancy of Self over mind-illusion mechano-universe of un-feeling Time in which I saw my self my own mother and my very nation trapped desolate our worlds of consciousness homeless and at war except for the original trembling of bliss in breast and belly of every body that nakedness rejected in suits of fear that familiar defenseless living hurt self which is myself same as all others abandoned scared to own unchanging desire for each other. These poems almost unconscious to confess the beatific human fact, the language intuitively chosen as in trance & dream, the rhythms rising on breath from belly thru breast, the hymn completed in tears, the movement of the physical poetry demanding and receiving decades of life while chanting Kaddish the names of Death in many worlds the self seeking the Key to life found at last in our self.
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Kerouacby Ann ChartersISBN 0312113471 (0-312-11347-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kerouac'Book summary:[via]Now that Kerouac's major novel, On the Road is accepted as an American classic, academic critics are slowly beginning to catch up with his experimental literary methods and examine the dozen books comprising what he called 'the legend of Duluoz.' Nearly all of his books have been in print internationally since his death in 1969, and his writing has been discovered and enjoyed by new readers throughout the world. Kerouac's view of the promise of America, the seductive and lovely vision of the beckoning open spaces of our continent, has never been expressed better by subsequent writers, perhaps because Kerouac was our last writer to believe in America's promise--and essential innocence--as the legacy he would explore in his autobiographical fiction.More editions of Kerouac:
- Kerouac: ISBN 0312006179 (0-312-00617-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - Kerouac: ISBN 0446813311 (0-446-81331-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub - Kerouac: ISBN 0233965165 (0-233-96516-5)
Hardcover, Deutsch - Kerouac: ISBN 0233965688 (0-233-96568-8)
Hardcover, Deutsch - Kerouac: ISBN 0879320559 (0-87932-055-9)
Hardcover, Straight Arrow Books - Kerouac: ISBN 0312113471 (0-312-11347-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
- Kerouac: ISBN 0312006179 (0-312-00617-9)
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Lonesome Travelerby Jack KerouacISBN 0802130747 (0-8021-3074-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lonesome Traveler'Book summary:In his first frankly autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac tells the exhilarating story fo the years when he was writing th books that captivated and infuriated the public, restless years of wandering during which he worked as a railway brakeman in California, a steward on a tramp steamer, and a fire lookout on the crest of Desolation Peak in the Cascde Mountains.[via]More editions of Lonesome Traveler:
Memoirs of a Beatnikby Diane Di PrimaISBN 0140235396 (0-14-023539-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Naked Angels: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughsby John TytellISBN 1566636833 (1-56663-683-3)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked Angels: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs'Book summary:Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughstheir emergence in the late 1950s as the leading figures of the Beat movement marked one of the most spectacular developments in post-World War II American literature. John Tytell's classic study examines their attempt to redefine a complacent society's notion of sanity and normalcy and to reinvent their own lives through jazz, drugs, and law-breaking, acts that ultimately led to new forms of expression. A fascinating blend of literary and social criticism, history, and biography, Naked Angels is an indispensable introduction to the lives and work of these seminal figures, and an unsurpassed look at the powerful influence they had on the 1960s and beyond. [via]
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Naked Lunchby William S. Burroughs, Barry Miles, James GrauerholzISBN 0802140181 (0-8021-4018-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked Lunch'Book summary:"He was," as Salon's Gary Kamiya notes, "20th-century drug culture's Poe, its Artaud, its Baudelaire. He was the prophet of the literature of pure experience, a phenomenologist of dread.... Burroughs had the scary genius to turn the junk wasteland into a parallel universe, one as thoroughly and obsessively rendered as Blake's."
Why has this homosexual ex-junkie, whose claim to fame rests entirely on one book--the hallucinogenic ravings of a heroine addict--so seized the collective imagination? Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch in a Tangier, Morocco, hotel room between 1954 and 1957. Allen Ginsberg and his beatnik cronies burst onto the scene, rescued the manuscript from the food-encrusted floor, and introduced some order to the pages. It was published in Paris in 1959 by the notorious Olympia Press and in the U.S. in 1962; the landmark obscenity trial that ensued served to end literary censorship in America.
Burroughs's literary experiment--the much-touted "cut-up" technique--mirrored the workings of a junkie's brain. But it was junk coupled with vision: Burroughs makes teeming amalgam of allegory, sci-fi, and non-linear narration, all wrapped in a blend of humor--slapstick, Swiftian, slang-infested humor. What is Naked Lunch about? People turn into blobs amidst the sort of evil that R. Crumb, in the decades to come, would inimitably flesh out with his dark and creepy cartoon images. Perhaps the most easily grasped part of Naked Lunch is its America-bashing, replete with slang and vitriol. Read it and see for yourself. [via]
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- Naked Lunch: ISBN 0802132952 (0-8021-3295-2)
Softcover, Pub Group West - Naked Lunch: ISBN 0394538838 (0-394-53883-8)
Hardcover, Grove Pr - Naked Lunch: ISBN 0394538846 (0-394-53884-6)
Hardcover, Grove Pr - Naked Lunch: ISBN 0613706188 (0-613-70618-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Naked Lunch: ISBN 0802116396 (0-8021-1639-6)
Hardcover, Grove Pr - Naked Lunch: ISBN 0802140181 (0-8021-4018-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
- Naked Lunch: ISBN 0802132952 (0-8021-3295-2)
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Nova Expressby William S. BurroughsISBN 0802133304 (0-8021-3330-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nova Express'Book summary:Nova Express takes William S. Burroughss nightmarish future one step beyond The Soft Machine. The diabolical Nova criminals have gained control and plan on wreaking untold destruction. Its up to Inspector Lee of the Nova Police to attack and dismantle the word-and-imagery machine of these control addicts before its too late.[via]More editions of Nova Express:
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On the Roadby Jack KerouacISBN 0140042598 (0-14-004259-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Road'Book summary:In its time Jack Kerouac's masterpiece was the bible of the Beat Generation, the essential prose accompaniment to Allen Ginsberg's Howl . While it stunned the public and literary establishment when it was published in 1957, it is now recognized as an American classic. With On the Road , Kerouac discovered his voice and his true subject-the search for a place as an outsider in America. On the Road swings to the rhythms of fifties underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns, and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveler and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. "Life is great, and few can put the zest and wonder and sadness and humor of it on paper more interestingly than Kerouac." -Luther Nichols, San Francisco Examiner "Just as, more than any other novel of the Twenties, The Sun Also Rises came to be regarded as the testament of the Lost Generation, so it seems certain that On the Road will come to be known as that of the Beat Generation." -Gilbert Millstein, The New York Times @Didn'tTypeOnTP! For TWITTERATURE of On the Road by Jack Kerouac, please see On the Road by Jack Kerouac. From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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- On the Road: ISBN 0140283293 (0-14-028329-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - On the Road: ISBN 0142437255 (0-14-243725-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - On the Road: ISBN 0143036386 (0-14-303638-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - On the Road: ISBN 0670874787 (0-670-87478-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - On the Road: ISBN 0899661343 (0-89966-134-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - On the Road: ISBN 0140155112 (0-14-015511-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - On the Road: ISBN 0140185216 (0-14-018521-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA - On the Road: ISBN 0142002747 (0-14-200274-7)
Hardcover, Penguin USA - On the Road: ISBN 0785796320 (0-7857-9632-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - On the Road: ISBN 0140042598 (0-14-004259-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- On the Road: ISBN 0140283293 (0-14-028329-3)
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Pictures of the Gone Worldby Lawrence FerlinghettiISBN 0872863034 (0-87286-303-4)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pictures of the Gone World'Book summary:[via]Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955.
It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The original edition contained the first twenty-seven poems to which the author has now added eighteen new verses.
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The Place of Dead Roadsby William S. BurroughsISBN 0312278659 (0-312-27865-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Place of Dead Roads'Book summary:A good old-fashioned shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers lead by Kim Carson fight for galactic freedom.AUTHORBIO: William S. Burroughs was born in St. Louis in 1914.His many other works include NAKED LUNCH and JUNKY.Described by Norman Mailer as one of Americas few writers genuinely possessed by genius, he died in 1997.
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- The Place of Dead Roads: ISBN 0714540323 (0-7145-4032-3)
Softcover, Calder - The Place of Dead Roads: ISBN 0805015418 (0-8050-1541-8)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry - The Place of Dead Roads : A Novel: ISBN 0805039546 (0-8050-3954-6)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry - The Place of Dead Roads: ISBN 0030632560 (0-03-063256-0)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co - The Place of Dead Roads: ISBN 0030704162 (0-03-070416-2)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co - The Place of Dead Roads: ISBN 0714540307 (0-7145-4030-7)
Hardcover, Calder - The Place of Dead Roads: ISBN 0312278659 (0-312-27865-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
- The Place of Dead Roads: ISBN 0714540323 (0-7145-4032-3)
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The Portable Beat Readerby Ann ChartersISBN 0142437530 (0-14-243753-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Beat Reader'Book summary:The Portable Beat Reader is an excellent and thorough study of the Beat Generation, compiled and edited by Ann Charters, biographer of Jack Kerouac and one of our most notable experts on Beat literature and ideas. This lively work of scholarship goes deeply into the history of the Beat movement, investigating events such as the discovery (by writer William Burroughs) of the word beat to describe this literary generation. The reader includes essays on all the major prose and poetry writers, such as Allen Ginsberg, and offers rare insight into the literary-historical context of the movement. [via]
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Queerby William S. BurroughsISBN 0140083898 (0-14-008389-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Queer'Book summary:For more than three decades, while its writer's world fame increased, Queer remained unpublished because of its forthright depiction of homosexual longings. Set in the corrupt and spectral Mexico City of the forties, Queer is the story of William Lee, a man afflicted with both acute heroin withdrawal and romantic and sexual yearnings for an indifferent user named Eugene Allerton. The narrative is punctuated by Lee's outrageous "routines" brilliant comic monologues that foreshadow Naked Lunch yet the atmosphere is heavy with foreboding.[via]In his extraordinary introduction, Burroughs reflects on the shattering events in his life that lay behind this work.
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Subterraneansby Jack KerouacISBN 0802131867 (0-8021-3186-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Subterraneans'Book summary:In "Subterraneans" Leo and Mardou live amongst the Subterraneans who haunt the bars and clubs of San Fransisco and have a bittersweet love affair. In "Pic", on the road but not yet overawed, ten-year-old Pic tells the story in the Negro dialect of the North Carolina farm country. [via]
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Town & the Cityby John KerouacISBN 0156907909 (0-15-690790-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Town & the City'Book summary:In this compelling first novel, Kerouac draws on his New England mill-town boyhood to create the world of George and Marguerite Martin and their eight children, each endowed with an energy and a vision of life.[via] -
Visions of Codyby Jack KerouacISBN 0140179070 (0-14-017907-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Visions of Cody'Book summary:Kerouac's most radical experiment in language and storytelling is Visions of Cody, an "enormous paean" to that singular and influential figure Neal Cassady. A fusion of radical improvisation, bold reportate, and oracular voice, it is his ultimate version of the On the Road story. 2 cassettes. [via]
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Deadby William S. BurroughsISBN 0802133312 (0-8021-3331-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead'Book summary:The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is fascinating.[via]More editions of The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead:
Wild Boys a Book of the Deadby W. S. BurroughsISBN 039417819X (0-394-17819-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisibleby Barry MilesISBN 1562828487 (1-56282-848-7)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible'Book summary:[via]"Miles familiarizes even old close readers with a fine map of Burroughs' mind." Allen GinsbergIconoclast; visionary; homosexual crusader; drug advocate; teacher and elder statesman to Jack Kracouac, Allen Ginsberg, and the Beats; anti-hero guru to each successive counter-culture generationthis is a portait of a man who remains one of the most complex and controversial American writers of the 20th century. After killing his wife in a bizarre shooting accident, he moved to Tangier where he lived in male brothel and wrote his celebrated bestseller Naked Lunchin Newsweek's words "A masterpiece. A cry from Hell."as a series of letters to Allen Ginsberg. He lived at the Beat Hotel in Paris and spent a decade in London before returning as prodigal son to New York in 1974 after 25 years of self imposed exile. Following Burroughs' death in August 1997, Barry Miles updated his riveting, unconventional biography of this legendary provocateur.More editions of William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible:
William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible A Portraitby Barry MilesISBN 078688018X (0-7868-8018-X)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolutionby Brenda KnightISBN 1573241385 (1-57324-138-5)
Softcover, Red Wheel/Weiser
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution'Book summary:Female Beats wrote poetry, took drugs, went on the road, listened to jazz, and lived on the fringe just as the men did, but their accomplishments are not as widely recognized. This volume attempts to correct this oversight by profiling 40 women of the Beat generation and publishing samples of their work. Well-known poets Diane di Prima and Denise Levertov appear in the volume, along with the muses of male writers and other women who never became famous at all. As Brenda Knight notes in her introduction, counterculture women in the 1950s and 1960s faced difficult obstacles: "To be unmarried, a poet, an artist, to bear biracial children, to go on the road was doubly shocking for a woman, and social condemnation was high." The first portion of the anthology is devoted to women who were not Beats but who set the stage for the movement. Josephine Miles wrote poetry and mentored the younger Beat poets at Berkeley, while Madeline Gleason founded the San Francisco Poetry Festival. In the "Muses" section are short biographies of wives and girlfriends of famous male writers such as Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady. It's widely known that William S. Burroughs shot his wife Joan Vollmer Adams Burroughs; this book fills in other details of her wild and short life. Profiles of writers such as Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, Janna McClure, and Janine Pommy Vega account for the rest of the anthology. The lives these women led are as interesting as their writing, and Women of the Beat Generation honors their determination to live outside the mainstream. --Jill Marquis [via]
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Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolutionby Ann Charters, Brenda Knight, Anne WaldmanISBN 075677988X (0-7567-7988-X)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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The Yage Letters Reduxby William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Oliver HarrisISBN 0872864480 (0-87286-448-0)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yage Letters Redux'Book summary:[via]In January 1953, William S. Burroughs began an expedition into the jungles of South America to find yage, the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. From the notebooks he kept and the letters he wrote home to Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs composed a narrative of his adventures that later appeared as The Yage Letters. For this edition, Oliver Harris has gone back to the original manuscripts and untangled the history of the text, telling the fascinating story of its genesis and cultural importance. Also included in this edition are extensive materials, never before published, by both Burroughs and Ginsberg.
William S. Burroughs is widely recognized as one of the most influential and innovative writers of the twentieth century. His books include Junky, Naked Lunch, and The Wild Boys.
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El Almuerzo Desnudoby W. BURROUGHSISBN 8433920081 (84-339-2008-1)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Almuerzo Desnudo'Book summary:Esta novela, una de las mas miticas de la literatura norteamericana, es un descenso a los infiernos de la droga y una denuncia horrorizada y sardonica, onirica y alucinatoria de la sociedad actual, un mundo sin esperanza ni futuro. Burroughs dispara sus flechas contra las religiones, el ejercito, la universidad, la sexualidad, la justicia corrupta, los traficantes tramposos, el colonialismo, la burocracia, y la psiquiatria representada por el siniestro Dr. Benway, el gran manipulador de conciencias, el experto en Control total. / Naked Lunch, one of the most mythical novels of North American literature, is a descent into the hellfire of drugs, and a horrified, sardonic, dreamlike and hallucinatory denouncement of todays society, a world with no hope and no future. Burroughs fires his arrows against religion, the army, university, sexuality, the corruption of justice, cheating dealers, colonialism, bureaucracy and the psychiatry represented by the sinister Dr. Benway, the great manipulator of consciences, the expert of total Control. [via]
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En el Caminoby Jack Kerouac, Martín LendínezISBN 8433920146 (84-339-2014-6)
Hardcover, Anagrama Editorial S. A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'En el Camino'Book summary:Este libro fue la Biblia y el manifiesto de la generacion beat y se ha convertido en una novela de culto y en un clasico de la literatura norteamericana. Se narran aqui los viajes enloquecidos, a bordo de Cadillacs prestados y Dodges desvencijados, de un mitico hipster y un narrador. Esta es la cronica de unos protagonistas que fueron en la vida real: Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg y William Burroughs. [via]
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