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Ask the Dustby John FanteISBN 0862418399 (0-86241-839-9)
Softcover, Canongate Crime
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ask the Dusk'Book summary:This book is another sterling recommendation from the Saltzman workshop. The under-appreciated Fante's second outing details the adventures of his alterego, Arturo Bandini, as the struggling young writer tackles Los Angeles in the late 1930s. And take it from personal experience, tackling L.A. as a destitute young scribe some decades later isn't much different. In other words: Fante gets it right and sets it down in his Chianti-steak-and-potatoes style, with prose both simple and rich. This Black Sparrow edition has a bonus: Charles Bukowski's great preface on how Fante stacks up against writers that were at once more famous--and far more anemic. [via]
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- Ask the Dust: ISBN 0876854447 (0-87685-444-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers - Ask the Dust: ISBN 0876854439 (0-87685-443-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers - Ask the Dust: ISBN 0876854455 (0-87685-445-5)
Hardcover, Black Sparrow Press - Ask the Dusk: ISBN 0862418399 (0-86241-839-9)
Softcover, Canongate Crime
- Ask the Dust: ISBN 0876854447 (0-87685-444-7)
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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]
Book of Sketches: 1952-57by Jack Kerouac, George CondoISBN 0142002151 (0-14-200215-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Burroughs Fileby William S. BurroughsISBN 087286152X (0-87286-152-X)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Burroughs File'Book summary:[via]Trenchant writings by that sardonic ""hombre invisible,"" William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot publications in obscure places, foreign and domestic. Including complete texts from White Subway, Cobblestone Gardens, and The Retreat Diaries, this collection delineates Burroughs' comprehensive world-view and his ""insurrectionary sense of America's underside, as Tom Carson epitomized it in The Village Voice.
Also included are essays on Burroughs by Alan Ansen and Paul Bowles, and facsimile pages from the famous cut-up scrapbooks of the mid-century: The Book of Hours, John Brady's Book, and The Old Farmer's Almanac.
Cities of the Red Nightby William S. BurroughsISBN 0805017631 (0-8050-1763-1)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities of the Red Night'Book summary:While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus. An opium-infused apocalyptic vision from the legendary author of Naked Lunch is the first of the trilogy with The Places of the Dead Roads and his final novel, The Western Plains.
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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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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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Exterminator!by William S. BurroughsISBN 0670302813 (0-670-30281-3)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exterminator!'Book summary:A man, dispirited by ageing, endeavours to steal a younger man's face; a doctor yearns for a virus that might eliminate his discomfort by turning everyone else into doubles of himself; a Colonel lays out the precepts of the life of DE (Do Easy); conspirators posthumously succeed in blowing up a train full of nerve gas; a mandrill known as the Purple Better One runs for the presidency with brutal results; and the world drifts towards apocalypses of violence, climate and plague. The hallucinatory landscape of William Burroughs' compellingly bizarre, fragmented novel is constantly shifting, something sinister always just beneath the surface. [via]
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Grace Beats Karma: Letters from Prison, 1958-60by Neal CassadyISBN 0922233071 (0-922233-07-1)
Softcover, Blast Books
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Hocus Pocusby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0425130215 (0-425-13021-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hocus Pocus'Book summary:Hocus Pocus is the fictional autobiography of a West Point graduate who was in charge of the humiliating evacuation of U.S. personnel from the Saigon rooftops at the close of the Vietnam War. Returning home from the war, he unknowingly fathered an illegitimate son. In 2001, the son begins a search for his father and catches up with him just in time to see him arrested for masterminding the prison break of 10,000 convicts.
Using his famous brand of satire and wit, Vonnegut captures twenty-first century America as only he could foresee it. In Hocus Pocus, listeners will find a fresh novel, as fascinating and brilliantly offbeat as anything he's written. [via]More editions of Hocus Pocus:
- Hocus Pocus: ISBN 0425161293 (0-425-16129-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - Hocus Pocus: ISBN 0399135243 (0-399-13524-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Hocus Pocus: ISBN 0399135499 (0-399-13549-9)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group - Hocus Pocus: ISBN 0425130215 (0-425-13021-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
- Hocus Pocus: ISBN 0425161293 (0-425-16129-3)
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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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Interzoneby William S. Burroughs, James GrauerholzISBN 0670813478 (0-670-81347-8)
Hardcover, Viking
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interzone'Book summary:[via]In 1954 William Burroughs settled in Tangiers, finding a sanctuary of sorts in its shadowy streets, blind alleys, and lowlife decadence. It was this city that served as a catalyst for Burroughs as a writer, the backdrop for one of the most radical transformations of style in literary history.
Burroughs's life during this period is limned in a startling collection of short stories, autobiographical sketches, letters, and diary entries, all of which showcase his trademark mordant humor, while delineating the addictions to drugs and sex that are the central metaphors of his work. But it is the extraordinary "WORD," a long, sexually wild and deliberately offensive tirade, that blends confession, routine, and fantasy and marks the true turning point of Burroughs as a writer-the breakthrough of his own characteristic voice that will find its full realization in Naked Lunch. James Grauerholz's incisive introduction sets the scene for this series of pieces, guiding the reader through Burroughs's literary evolution from the precise, laconic, and deadpan writer of Junky and Queer to the radical, uncompromising seer of Naked Lunch. Interzone is an indispensable addition to the canon of his works.
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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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Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Fiveby Harold BloomISBN 0791059251 (0-7910-5925-1)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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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:
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Minor Charactersby Joyce JohnsonISBN 0395325137 (0-395-32513-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Minor Characters'Book summary:Johnson considers her personal history within the larger framework of the Beat movement and American society. Memories of a conventional Jewish middle-class upbringing and her revolt against it are interwoven with the early experiences of people she would meet later: Jack Kerouac (her boyfriend in the late 1950s), Allen Ginsberg, and others are evaluated with perceptive authority. Johnson's elegant prose is carefully wrought and thoughtfully measured in a way that Beat literature seldom was. [via]
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Minor Characters : A Beat Memoirby Joyce JohnsonISBN 0385475306 (0-385-47530-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Minor Characters : A Beat Memoir'Book summary:National Book Critics Circle Award-winner, Minor Characters has deservedly become known among the cognoscenti as a classic about the 1950s, a vivid and compelling memoir of one woman's coming of age amidst the angels and poets of the Beat Generation. The friend and lover of Jack Kerouac during the two years surrounding the publication of On The Road --the book that made him suddenly and forever famous--Johnson describes with penetrating insight the circle of rebellious visionaries of which she became a part: Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, LeRoi Jones, Gregory Corso. But more than just chronicling the drama of her life with a diffident and often drunken Kerouac, Johnson describes the roles that she and the other women in her circle played as companions and acolytes to their male muses, women who set aside their own needs and ambitions, for a time, even as they searched to find their own voices and shape their own lives. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, Johnson "has brought to life what history may ultimately judge to have been minor characters, but who were to her own generation major enough to shape its consciousness." Anchor Books is proud to be reissuing Minor Characters with a new introduction by the author that helps to place the Beat Generation in the context of the 1990s.
"Realistic rather than flamboyant, Johnson succeeds in portraying the Beats not as oddities or celebrities but as individuals. In wry retrospect, she recognizes the folly of young women rebelling against their well-meaning parents only to become subservient to indifferent men."--The New Yorker
"Johnson writes of Dostoevskian evenings, of Kerouac's disastrous confrontation with fame...of the major Beat voices and the minor characters, their women. It's a terrific book, rich and beautifully written, full of vivid portraits and evocations."--San Francisco Chronicle [via]More editions of Minor Characters : A Beat Memoir:
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My Educationby William S. BurroughsISBN 0670813508 (0-670-81350-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Education'Book summary:A provocative, intensely personal novel by the author of The Western Lands interweaves a world of vivid and visionary dreams into a direct and powerful force in human life. 15,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo. [via]
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My Kind of Angel: I. M. William Burroughsby Rupert LoydellISBN 1900152428 (1-900152-42-8)
Softcover, Stride Publications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Kind of Angel: I. M. William Burroughs'Book summary:interviews, essays, graphics & tributes (from UK) [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)
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- Naked Lunch: ISBN 0802132952 (0-8021-3295-2)
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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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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]
The Portable Jack Kerouacby Jack Kerouac, Ann ChartersISBN 067084957X (0-670-84957-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Post Officeby Charles BukowskiISBN 0876850867 (0-87685-086-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Post Office'Book summary:Henry Chinaski is a low-life loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial Post Office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and race tracks. First published in 1971, this was Charles Bukowski's debut novel. [via]
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Queerby William S. BurroughsISBN 0670808334 (0-670-80833-4)
Hardcover, 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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Slapstickby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0385334230 (0-385-33423-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slapstick'Book summary:Dr. Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain, centenarian, the last President of the United States, King of Manhattan, and one-half (along with his sister, Eliza) of the most powerful intelligence since Einstein, is penning his autobiography. He occupies the first floor of a ruined Empire State Building and lives like a royal scavenger with his illiterate granddaughter and her beau. Buffeted by fluctuating gravity, the U.S. has been scourged by not one, but two lethal diseases: the Green Death and the Albanian Flu. Consequently, the country has fallen into civil war. (Super-intelligent, miniaturized Chinese watch the West self-destruct from the sidelines.) Swain stayed at the White House until there were no citizens left to govern, then moved to deserted New York City, where he writes a thoughtful missive before death.
In Slapstick, Vonnegut muses on war, man's hubris, and the awful, crippling loneliness humans are freighted with--but, miraculously, the book still manages to delight and amuse. Absurd, knowing, never depressing, Slapstick kindles hope--for the possibility of wisdom, perhaps; for human resiliency, surely.
It's best to end with a quote from the prologue wherein the author discourses on The Meaning of It All, or at least This Book: "Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go off looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please--a little less love, and a little more common decency.'"
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Slapstick : Or Lonesome No More!by Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440180090 (0-440-18009-0)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Slaughter House Fiveby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0385333846 (0-385-33384-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade'Book summary:Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden.
Don't let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut's isn't a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, "There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick, and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters..." Slaughterhouse-Five (taken from the name of the building where the POWs were held) is not only Vonnegut's most powerful book, it is as important as any written since 1945. Like Catch- 22, it fashions the author's experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. Slaughterhouse-Five boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut's other works, but the book's basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it a unique poignancy--and humor. [via]
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- Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: ISBN 0440180295 (0-440-18029-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Slaughter House Five: ISBN 0385312083 (0-385-31208-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - Slaughter House Five: ISBN 0783883706 (0-7838-8370-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Slaughter House Five: ISBN 0844663662 (0-8446-6366-2)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc - Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: ISBN 0385333846 (0-385-33384-6)
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- Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: ISBN 0440180295 (0-440-18029-5)
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The Soft Machineby William S. BurroughsISBN 0802133290 (0-8021-3329-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Soft Machine'Book summary:In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.[via]More editions of The Soft Machine:
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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]
The Ticket That Explodedby William S. BurroughsISBN 0802151507 (0-8021-5150-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Vibrant With Words: The Letters of Ursula Bethellby Peter Whiteford, Ursula BethellISBN 0864735049 (0-86473-504-9)
Softcover, Victoria Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vibrant With Words: The Letters of Ursula Bethell'Book summary:Ursula Bethell was a modernist poet who helped shape New Zealand's literary scene between the two world wars. This collection of letters tells the story of her early life of travel and social work in Europe and opens a window on her subsequent writerly life as she describes the origins of many of her poems.[via]More editions of Vibrant With Words: The Letters of Ursula Bethell:
The Western Landsby William S. BurroughsISBN 0670813524 (0-670-81352-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fireby Charles BukowskiISBN 1574231057 (1-57423-105-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Wild Boys: A Book of the Deadby William S. BurroughsISBN 0802133312 (0-8021-3331-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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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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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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Slapstick, Eller, Aldrig Mera Ensamby Kurt VonnegutISBN 9117810213 (91-1-781021-3)
Softcover, PAN/Norstedts
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Borgerlige Partisanerby Leif LarsenISBN 8700000612 (87-00-00061-2)
Hardcover, Gyldendal
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