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The Typewriter is Holy: The Complete Uncensored History of the Beat Generation
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Author
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Bill Morgan.
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Publisher
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Free Press
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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9.5
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6.5
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1.05
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ISBN
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9781416592426
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Pages/Publication Date
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291/2010
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Daedalus Item Code
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21339
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Description
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"[Bill] Morgan brings a productive career of chronicling the mid-20th-century writers known as the Beats to a fine point with this thorough popular history that eschews criticism to concentrate on who was where, doing what, when. If you weren't a friend of Allen Ginsberg's, you weren't a Beat, Morgan says, which means that the first Beat, Lucien Carr, was never a writer. Carr's good looks attracted Columbia freshman Ginsberg, not yet a self-accepting homosexual, and his affability led him to introduce Ginsberg to William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, the other essential Beats.... This must be regarded as the just-the-facts-ma'am basic text on the most important literary phenomenon of post-WWII America."—Booklist (starred review)
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