Ann Charters, Samuel Charters

Broschiertes Buch

Brother-Souls

John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation

Beschreibung

John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouacâ s life they were - in Holmesâ s words â â Brother Soulsâ . Brother-Souls is the remarkable chronicle of this cornerstone friendship and the life of John Clellon Holmes.

Autor

Ann Charters is professor emerita of English at the University of Connecticut, where she taught for more than thirty years. She is the author and editor of numerous books on writers of the Beat Generation, including Beat Down to Your Soul: What Was the Beat Generation?, The Portable Beat Reader, and Kerouac: A Biography. Samuel Charters (1929-2015) was an eminent historian of jazz and blues music and author of the award-winning The Roots of the Blues: An African Search and numerous other titles. He was also a Grammy-winning record producer, musician, poet, and fiction writer, and was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1994.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Seitenzahl: 474
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 704g
• ISBN-13: 9781496853745
• ISBN-10: 1496853741
• Artikelnr.: 71223510