| Description |
xxvii, 500 pages ; 25 cm |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
At times loving, at others blistering, sarcastic, often uncomfortably self-lacerating and intimate, these 200 letters, collected in a heroic editorial effort by Ginsberg biographer Morgan and independent editor Stanford, cover the years 1944-1963, the most fertile in the creative lives of Kerouac and Ginsberg. A disbelieving Ginsberg writes to Kerouac in 1952 that On the Road is unpublishable, while Kerouac asks Ginsberg to treat his magnum opus as the next Ulysses. Kerouac immediately praises Howl in 1955, and in return Ginsberg gives Kerouac the manuscript while recounting, like any hopeful author, how freebies have gone to Eliot, Pound, Faulkner... On receiving Ginsberg's work, Thelonius Monk exclaimed, "It makes sense." In its strange way, so does this intense and offbeat correspondence--Publisher's Weekly. |
| Subject |
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969 -- Correspondence.
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Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 -- Correspondence.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
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Beats (Persons)
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| Added Author |
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
Correspondence. Selections.
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Morgan, Bill, 1949-
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Stanford, David, 1951-
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| Added Title |
Correspondence. Selections
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| ISBN |
9780670021949 |
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0670021946 |
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