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Beat : photographs/commentary  Cover Image Book Book

Beat : photographs/commentary / Christopher Felver.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780867196719 (hbk.) :
  • ISBN: 0867196718 (hbk.) :
  • Physical Description: xvi, 208 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 27 cm.
  • Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Last Gasp, c2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Inside endpapers decorated with facsimile text of Kerouac's "On the Road" original manuscript.
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Endpapers / Jack Kerouac -- Beats & cohorts / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The world of Chris Felver / Amiri Baraka -- I hear America swingin' / David Amram -- Correspondence / Carolyn Cassady -- Letter from Vacaville / Neal Cassady -- Allen Ginsberg's address book -- San Francisco -- Naropa -- New York -- Celebration -- Twilight -- Biographies.
Summary, etc.:
A collection of images, text, ephermera, artifacts, and reminiscence celebrates the creative spirit and joyous antics of the men and women known as the Beat Generation. Spotlighted are Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Ken Kesey, Jay DeFeo, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern, Patti Smith, Anne Waldman, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsburg, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and many more.
Subject: Felver, Christopher, 1946-
Beat generation.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Authors, American > 20th century > Pictorial works.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Counterculture > California > San Francisco > Pictorial works.
Bohemianism > United States.
New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
San Francisco (Calif.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.

Holds

0 current holds with 1 total copy.

Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Main 810.90054 F349b (Text) 31307017299373 Non Fiction Available -


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