Publisher's Synopsis
This book offers a concise overview of the social, cultural, and aesthetic sensibilities of the Beat Generation, explaining how their drastic visions and radical styles challenged postwar America's dominant values in ways that can still be felt in literature, cinema, music, theater, and the visual arts. Such figures as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Clellon Holmes, Carolyn Cassady, and Gary Snyder feature prominently in the book.
