9781903809143

The Beat Hotel

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9781903809143

Hardcover|9781903809143


Overview

The Beat Hotel has been closed for nearly forty years. But for a brief period, from just after the publication of Howl in 1957 until the building was sold in 1963, it was home to Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin and a host of other luminaries of the Beat Generation. Now, Barry Miles, author of many books on the Beats and a personal acquaintance of many of them, recreates vividly this remarkable period and restores it to a historical picture that has, until now, been skewed in favour of America. Drawing on diaries, letters and many original interviews, The Beat Hotel is the first detailed account of a defining time and place for some of the twentieth century's most daring and notorious authors.

ISBN-13

9781903809143

ISBN-10

1903809142

Weight

1.35 Pounds

Dimensions

9.61 x 6.26 x 1.14 In

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

304 pages

Publisher

Atlantic Books

Published On

2001-09-27



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