The Awakener
A Memoir of Kerouac and the Fifties
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Author
Publication
2009-11-01 - City Lights Books, San Francisco, USA, California
Language
English
Word Count
65,000 words, Guess
Page Count
260 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveawakenermemoirof00weav
- ISBN-139780872865051
- ISBN-100872865053
- Goodreads6676468
- LibraryThing8978229
and 2 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2009026896
- Open LibraryOL23614476M
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- DDCB
- LCCPS228.B6 W43 2009
Description
*The Awakener* is Helen Weaver's long awaited memoir of her adventures with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lenny Bruce, and other wild characters from the New York City of the fifties and sixties. The sheltered but rebellious daughter of bookish Midwestern parents, Weaver survived a repressive upbringing in the wealthy suburbs of Scarsdale and an early divorce to land in Greenwich Village just in time for the birth of rock 'n' roll—and the counterculture movement known as the Beat Generation. Shortly after her arrival Kerouac, Ginsberg, and company—old friends of her roommate—arrive on their doorstep after a non-stop drive from Mexico. Weaver and Kerouac fall in love on sight, and Kerouac moves in.
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Genres
- Biography
Other Editions
- The Awakener: A Memoir of Kerouac and the Fifties
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