The Portable Beat Reader

Features selections from the writers of the Beat generation, including William Burroughs'' "Naked Lunch," in which a drug addict travels to Mexico and Morocco in order to gain easy access to drugs, but winds up in a bizarre fantasy world. Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." This book collects the significant writings of the fellow members of the Beat Generation. In poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs, it captures the triumphant rudeness, energy, and exhilaration of a movement that swept through American letters.

• | Author: Ann Charters, Ann Charters
• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: May 25, 2006
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780142437537
• | ISBN-10: 0142437530