Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
- ISBN-10
- 0670021946
- ISBN-13
- 9780670021949
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 500
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Author
- Jack Kerouac
Description
Collects 200 letters exchanged by the celebrated Beat movement writers to offer insight into their abiding friendship and artistic views, in a volume that spans the period from Ginsberg's Columbia education until shortly before Kerouac's death.
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