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Tytell, John / Mellon / William S. Burroughs, Alen Ginsberg , et al: Paradise Outlaws - Remembering the Beats , Beatniks , Beat Poets , Musicians , Artists , Generation ...by John Tytell with photos by Mellon ... Beatniks, Beat poets Allen Ginsberg , William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson , Abbie Hoffman, more, New York William Morrow Pub. 1999
ISBN: 0688164439 New Photos by Mellon

1999 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... BRAND NEW from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned ... Jacket protected in New clear non-stick mylar sleeve ... feltpen mark bottom edge , small closed tear to back top corner of dj , not as noticeable inside new sleeve ... Gift Giving quality ... 226 pages ... illustrated with B&W photos throughout ... In 1997 ... America lost two of its leading literary lights ... just months apart ... Allen Ginsberg ... & ... William S. Burroughs ... Their passings were clearly the end of an age ... In the wake of this generational shift ... original Beat scholar John Tytell ... along with noted photographer Mellon ... offers a highly p ersonal collection of intelligent essays ... & stunning photos ... that illuminate the phenomena that came to be known as the Beat Generation ... The half-century odyssey of the Beat Generation had seen the writers & artists at its core embraced by a society ... that once vehemently rejected them & their art ... for reasons that were as political as they were aesthetic ... Now, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, & William Burroughs have become a ubiquitous part of the cultural landscape ... their work recognized the world over ... as a springboard for all the countercultural revolutions that followed ... from the hippies to the punks ... to the hip-hop nation ... Part literary criticism ... part memoir ... part photograph collection ... this is a book as unconventional as its subject ... John Tytell, who was the first scholar to take the Beats seriously in his groundbreaking Naked Angels ... offers an authoritative identification of the political & cultural contexts of the Beats & their major accomplishments ... including Howl, On The Road, & Naked Lunch ... as well as lesser-known but just as vital works ... 45 revealing & informal photographs offer candid portraits of not only a few writers but also the musicians , painters, filmmakers, scene-makers, activists, & playwrights who have helped shape America's avant-garde since the Beats exploded on to the scene in 1956 ... people like Ginsberg & Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Ken Kesey, Diane di Prima, Timothy Lea ry, Hunter S. Thompson, Judith Malina, Larry Rivers, Patti Smith, Abbie Hoffman, and more ... All the photographs are accompanied by extensive & anecdotal captions ... Scholarly yet accessible, Paradise Outlaws offers new insights into the ever-expa nding rubric of "Beat," resulting in an informative, entertaining, and absorbing family photo album of the last American literary movement to capture the world's popular imagination ... ' 45 photographs taken by Mellon, Tytell's wife, enhance the text. Each photo is accompanied by a page or two of commentary. An essay on Tytell's experience teaching the Beats rounds out the volume.' ... " Paradise Outlaws - Remembering the Beats " ... by John Tytell ... illustrated by photographer Mellon ... published by William Morrow , New York ... 1999 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... *** Securely packed for safe delivery ~ We've been shipping books across North America and around the World, since 1965 ~ Family owned & operated for more than 40 years ~ Online sellers for 10 years ! First Edition New Hard Cover in Dust Jacket 8-1/2 x 10 x 1"

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