{"product_id":"this-is-the-beat-generation-new-york-san-francisco-paris-9780520230330","title":"This Is the Beat Generation: New York-San Francisco-Paris","description":"Beginning in New York in 1944, James Campbell finds the leading members of what was to become the Beat Generation in the shadows of madness and criminality. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs had each seen the insides of a mental hospital and a prison by the age of thirty. A few months after they met, another member of their circle committed a murder that involved Kerouac and Burroughs as material witnesses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book charts the transformation of these experiences into literature, and a literary movement that spread across the globe. From \"The First Cut-Up\"--the murder in New York in 1944--we end up in Paris in 1960 with William Burroughs at the Beat Hotel, experimenting with the technique that made him notorious, what Campbell calls \"The Final Cut-Up.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn between, we move to San Francisco, where Ginsberg gave the first public reading of \u003ci\u003eHowl\u003c\/i\u003e. We discover Burroughs in Mexico City and Tangiers; the French background to the Beats; the Buddhist influence on Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and others; the \"Muses\" Herbert Huncke and Neal Cassady; the tortuous history of \u003ci\u003eOn the Road;\u003c\/i\u003e and the black ancestry of the white hipster.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Campbell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 333\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.02w x 0.85d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520230330","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43158963912841,"sku":"9780520230330","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_f3a0716c-fa3b-48fe-b5a5-718c72f18425.jpg?v=1732612932","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/this-is-the-beat-generation-new-york-san-francisco-paris-9780520230330","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}