Brother-souls

John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat generation

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Author

Contributions

Charters, Samuel Barclay - Contributor

Publication

2010 - University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi

Language

English

Word Count

110,250 words, Guess

Page Count

441 pages

Identifiers

Internet Archivebrothersoulsjohn00char
Internet Archivebrothersoulsjohn0000char
ISBN-101604735791
ISBN-101604735805
ISBN-139781604735796

and 6 more

ISBN-139781604735802
Library of Congress Control Number2010010192
OCLC Control Number580105103
Better World Books9781604735796
Better World Books9781604735802
Open LibraryOL24815658M

Classifications

DDC813/.54
DDCB
LCCPS3558.O3594 Z6 2010

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LCCPS3558.O3594Z6 2010

Description

"John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were--in Holmes's words--'Brother Souls.' Both were neophyte novelists, hungry for literary fame but just as hungry to find a new way of responding to their experiences in a postwar American society that for them had lost its direction. Late one night as they sat talking, Kerouac spontaneously created the term 'Beat Generation' to describe this new attitude they felt stirring around them. Brother Souls is the remarkable chronicle of this cornerstone friendship and the life of John Clellon Holmes."--from Amazon.