Tristessa
By: Aram Saroyan , Jack Kerouac
4.33
Format: 308 pages,
Tristessa is the name with which Kerouac baptized Esperanza Villanueva, a Catholic Mexican young wo…
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1. Kaddish and Other Poems
By: Allen Ginsberg
4.20
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Great strange visionary poems by the author of Howl, “in the midst of the broken consciousness of m… read more
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"The weight of the world is love."-Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems
"What came is gone forever every time"-Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems
"No more to say, and nothing to weep for"-Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems
"Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!"-Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems
2. The Pleasures of the Damned
By: Charles Bukowski , John Martin
4.35
Format: 557 pages, Hardcover
To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was—and remains—the quintessential counterculture icon. A … read more
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"I want quiet thunder."-Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned
"a poem is a city burning"-Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned
"we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning."-Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned
"no te precipites. si existe la luz ella misma dará contigo."-Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned
3. Go
By: John Clellon Holmes
3.80
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The novel that launched the beat generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, … read more
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- novels
"The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free."-John Clellon Holmes, Go
"But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take."-John Clellon Holmes, Go
4. Crash
By: J.G. Ballard
3.59
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more
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- literature
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"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"-J.G. Ballard, Crash
5. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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- american
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- 20th century
- novels
"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
6. Naked Lunch
By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz
3.46
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more
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"Exterminate all rational thought"-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
7. Howl and Other Poems
By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg
4.13
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more
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- american
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"You too must seek the sun..."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"America this is quite serious"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
8. Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
By: Joyce Johnson , Ann Douglas
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Jack Kerouac. Allen Ginsberg. William S. Burroughs. LeRoi Jones. Theirs are the names primarily ass… read more
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"There is a terrible poignancy in this room of gratifications deferred"."-Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
"If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it till you got it right."-Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
"I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves."-Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
"We knew little of political realities. We had the illusion our own passions were enough. We felt that you could change everything just by being loud enough."-Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
9. Turtle Island
By: Gary Snyder , Michael Corr
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
Describing the title of his collection of poetry and occasional prose pieces, Gary Snyder writes in… read more
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- fiction
10. La región más transparente
By: Carlos Fuentes
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
Fue la primera novela de Fuentes, la que le abrio todas las puertas posibles. Inventario de la soci… read more
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- 20th century
11. Tristessa
By: Aram Saroyan , Jack Kerouac
4.33
Format: 308 pages,
Tristessa is the name with which Kerouac baptized Esperanza Villanueva, a Catholic Mexican young wo… read more
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- american
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- novella
- 20th century
- fiction
- novels
12. Provinces of Night
By: William Gay
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
The year is 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - … read more
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- novels
- fiction
13. First Third & Other Writings - Revised & Expanded Edition Together With A New Prologue
By: Neal Cassady
4.13
Format: 277 pages,
Immortalized as Dean Moriarty by Jack Kerouac in his epic novel, On the Road, Neal Cassady was infa… read more
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14. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
By: William S. Burroughs , Jack Kerouac
4.06
Format: None pages,
On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man nam… read more
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15. Hollywood
By: Charles Bukowski
3.40
Format: 96 pages,
Henry Chinaski siempre ha estado en pie de guerra, sin bajar la guardia contra el <>y sus infinitos… read more
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16. By Night in Chile
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more
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- fiction
"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
17. Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me
By: Thomas Pynchon , Richard Fariña
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Farina evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the… read more
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18. Queer
By: William S. Burroughs
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching … read more
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19. Junky
By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more
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20. Ask the Dust (Arturo Bandini, #3)
By: Charles Bukowski , John Fante
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ask the Dustis the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for … read more
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21. Post Office
By: Charles Bukowski
3.94
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life … read more
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"It began as a mistake."-Charles Bukowski, Post Office
"من يراهن كثيراً يخسر حصانه ص 154"-Charles Bukowski, Post Office
"المحترف يذهب إلى السباقات بمفرده ص 81"-Charles Bukowski, Post Office
"لا تحب المرأة أن تكون في المرتبة الثانية ص 161"-Charles Bukowski, Post Office
