A Blue Hand: The Beats in India
by Baker, Deborah
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1594201587
- ISBN 13
- 9781594201585
- Seller
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Traverse City, Michigan, United States
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Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Peninsula Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20922
- Title
- A Blue Hand: The Beats in India
- Author
- Baker, Deborah
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1594201587
- ISBN 13
- 9781594201585
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- 1594201587, Biography, Allen Ginsberg, India, Beat, Beat Generation
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