A Blue Hand: The Tragicomic, Mind-Altering Odyssey of Allen Ginsberg, a Holy Fool, a Lost Muse, a Dharma Bum, and His Prickly Bride

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2009 – vârsta de la 18 ani

In this engrossing new piece of Beat history, Pulitzer Prize finalist Deborah Baker takes us back to the moment when America's edgiest writers looked to India for answers as India looked to the West. It was 1961 when Allen Ginsberg left New York by boat for Bombay, where he hoped to meet poets Gary Snyder and Joanne Kyger. Baker follows Ginsberg and his companions as they travel from ashram to opium den. Exposing an overlooked chapter of the literary past, A Blue Hand will delight all those who continue to cherish the frenzied creativity of the Beats.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780143114833
ISBN-10: 0143114832
Pagini: 244
Ilustrații: b/w photos throughout
Dimensiuni: 127 x 208 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books

Recenzii

"A fabulous book-and written with great verve and nerve- about the Beats and their passage to India."
- Michael Ondaatje

"[A] dense, exotic, intriguing saga-not just Ginsberg's but India's too."
-National Geographic Adventure

"A piece of devoted scholarship and legwork dunked in the screwy, hyper-intelligent, tragicomic essence of everything that drove Ginsberg to take a trip that not only changed his life but helped spawn generations of hipsters, hippies, writers, artists, rock stars, mental cases, and self-anointed medicine men."
-The New York Times

Descriere

Baker presents a literary exploration of the Beats' encounter with India in the 1960s, a journey--led by Allen Ginsberg--that inspired and influenced generations of Americans and Indians alike.

Notă biografică

Deb Baker

Papetărie, jocuri, reviste