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

Publication Info.	San Francisco, Calif. : City Lights Books, [2009]
	©2009

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Description	1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations
Note	Print version record.
Contents	One PROLOGUE; SUNDAY MORNING; two THE VILLAGE; SULLIVAN STREET; WATCHSTRAPS FOREVER; FARRAR, STRAUS; THE ODD COUPLE; three 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; four LENNY; FROM BEAT TO HIP; FREE SPEECH; WEBSTER'S UNABRIDGED; THE REAL OBSCENITY; five 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; six EPILOGUE; JACK'S VOICE; APPENDIX; THE TWO HELENS' DICTIONARY OF HIP; AN ASTROLOGICAL APPENDIX; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
Summary	Helen Weaver's insightful and riveting memoir of love and friendship with Jack Kerouac and the Beats.
Subject	Weaver, Helen.
	Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
	Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
	Bruce, Lenny.
	Bruce, Lenny. (OCoLC)fst00014955
	Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997. (OCoLC)fst00042980
	Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. (OCoLC)fst00052352
	Weaver, Helen. (OCoLC)fst01936978
	Beats (Persons)
	New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1951-
	Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
	TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
	Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
	Beat generation. (OCoLC)fst00829327
	New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
Chronological Term	Since 1900
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Weaver, Helen. Awakener. San Francisco, Calif. : City Lights Books, ©2009 9780872865051 0872865053 (DLC) 2009026896
ISBN	0872866440 (electronic bk.)
	9780872866447 (electronic bk.)
Music No.	EB00642239 Recorded Books

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