Desolation Angels
By: Jack Kerouac , Joyce Johnson
3.93
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
The classic autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac featuring "one of the most true, comic, and griz…
Want to Read $ 8.99"So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry"-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
"So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry"-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
"Meanwhile the sunsets are mad orange fools raging in the gloom...."-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
"Meanwhile the sunsets are mad orange fools raging in the gloom...."-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
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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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- classics
- american
- literature
- 20th century
- fiction
"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. 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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- classics
- american
- the united states of america
- literature
- fiction
- 20th century
- 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
3. 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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- classics
- american
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- 20th century
- novels
"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
4. 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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- classics
- american
- literature
- 20th century
- fiction
"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
5. Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day
By: Joel Selvin
4.19
Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition
In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebra… read more
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6. 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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- literature
"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
7. 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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- classics
- fiction
8. Quiet Days in Clichy
By: Henry Miller
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This tender and nostalgic work dates from the same period as Tropic of Cancer (1934). It is a celeb… read more
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- classics
- american
- literature
- fiction
- novels
9. Tropic of Cancer
By: Henry Miller
0.00
Format: None pages,
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more
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- classics
- american
- literature
- fiction
- novels
10. Illuminations
By: Arthur Rimbaud
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous p… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
11. 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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- classics
- american
- the united states of america
- literature
- fiction
12. Beautiful Losers
By: Leonard Cohen
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losersis Cohen' s most defiant an… read more
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- literature
- novels
- classics
- fiction
13. 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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- classics
- american
- the united states of america
- literature
- fiction
- novels
14. Bound for Glory
By: Woody Guthrie , Pete Seeger
3.49
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years… read more
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15. Sometimes a Great Notion
By: Ken Kesey
4.26
Format: 628 pages, Paperback
The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest... Follo… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- the united states of america
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail"-Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
"He couldn't seem to get his teeth into anything. Except books. The things in books was darn near more real to him than the things breathing and eating."-Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
"Cafe Owners are more frustrated than the common laborer," Draeger writes. "The common laborer answers only to the foreman; the cafe owner answers to every patron who stops in"-Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
". . .sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words."-Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
16. Tropic of Capricorn
By: Henry Miller
4.00
Format: 16 pages,
Banned in America for almost 30 years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume… read more
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17. Desolation Angels
By: Jack Kerouac , Joyce Johnson
3.93
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
The classic autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac featuring "one of the most true, comic, and griz… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- the united states of america
- literature
- travel
- fiction
- contemporary
- 20th century
- novels
"So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry"-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
"Meanwhile the sunsets are mad orange fools raging in the gloom...."-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
"Every night I still ask the Lord, "Why?" and havent heard a decent answer yet"-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
"Tutte le notti continuo a chiedere al Signore, "Perché?" E ancora non ho avuto una risposta decente."-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
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. Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
By: Hunter S. Thompson
4.33
Format: 201 pages,
"California, Labor Day weekend...early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists w… 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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- classics
- american
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- literature
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- contemporary
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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
