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Cronies, a Burlesque: Adventures with Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, the Merry Pranksters and the Grateful Dead
A bullet train of a book, fast-paced, hilarious, rich with action. A harbinger of good things to come in mysterious ways. It all began at a cocktail party at Wallace Stegner's for the Stanford writing class of 1958. Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs became cronies, embarking on a frolicking, rambunctious adventure that lasted over 40 years. Babbs calls the 70 stories of this book "burlesques" because, after 85 years of living, much of it in the wide friendly center of an evolving, at times psychedelic culture, memory no longer can, or even should include an exact retelling, but only a tasty sprinkling of the truth, mixed with an endless enigma, all topped with the best of humor and heart. The troupe of characters include the Kens Kesey and Babbs, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Timothy Leary, Jerry Garcia, Pigpen, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mountain Girl, Sonny Barger, Larry McMurtry, Wavy Gravy, Hunter S. Thompson, Kirk Douglas, Paul Newman, Jan Kerouac, Bill Walton, Wendell Berry, a pick-up bed-sized sturgeon, and always the many free-spirited, creative, friendly men and women who made up the Merry Band of Pranksters. Come along for the ride on the famous bus trip to Manhattan. Join the Hells Angels at their partying best. Drop in for the early Acid Tests. Experience the Berkeley Vietnam anti-war rally. Relish the stories of Kesey's pot busts and "suicide." Climb aboard-"Board!"-for six months on the lam in Mexico. Take the Further tours with the Grateful Dead. Make the ultimate move to Oregon, where Babbs and Kesey grew a magical friendship and collaboration until Kesey passed in 2001. Irreverent, unencumbered by social norms, literary and poetic, Cronies is a poignant view of the Sixties and beyond from someone who was there, and remembers it well. Kind of...- Shop: buecher
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Visions of Cody, Hörbuch, Digital, 187min
Hear Jack Kerouac's most radical experiment in language and storytelling - an "enormous paean" to that singular and influential figure Neal Cassady. A fusion of radical improvisation, bold reportage, and oracular voice, it is Kerouac's ultimate version of his ultimate masterpiece, On the Road. The selections featured in this recording capture Kerouac's astonishing spontaneity, a quality that inspired Allen Ginsberg to dub Visions of Cody "the most sincere and holy writing I know of our age. Language: English. Narrator: Graham Parker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/000064/bk_peng_000064_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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On the Road
The paperback edition of the the original, uncensored manuscript published Autumn 2007. ON THE ROAD chronicles Jack Kerouac's years travelling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make ON THE ROAD an inspirational work of lasting importance.- Shop: buecher
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BEAT: The Latter Days of the Beat Generation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 531min
BEAT is an unfiltered chronicle of the wild escapades of those who made the living poetry that expressed the atomic age and beyond. Here is Ginsberg, Corso, Burroughs, Cassady, di Prima, Waldman, Micheline, Kesey, Bukowski, Kaufman, Vega, Bremser, and many others. Firsthand accounts from East Coast to West Coast, Prague to Kathmandu, Andy Clausen was there. Clausen's eyewitness memoir is filled with stories, anecdotes, and revelations of the generation that changed poetry, music, literature, and ushered in the psychedelic era, and is infused with the underlying premise that Beat is alive. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andy Clausen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/142128/bk_acx0_142128_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Killer Cocktail: A Molly Forrester Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 609min
Advice columnist Molly Forrester needs a break from her job at Zeitgeist, a Manhattan glossy. The opportunity for some R-n-R arrives when her best friends, Tricia and Cassady, invite her to the Hamptons for a weekend of hard-earned fun to celebrate Tricia's brother's engagement. But Molly's plans of sipping margaritas by the poolside and working on nothing more than her tan are sidetracked by an unscheduled event - the murder of the bride-to-be.... It isn't long before suspicion is cast on Tricia's brother. Was this a case of jealousy or something much deeper? Now Molly must follow a trail of sex, lies, and streaming video back to Manhattan, but her sleuthing efforts are complicated when her ex-boyfriend, NYPD homicide detective Kyle Edwards, interferes with the case - and with Molly's heart.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meghan Kane Haseman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005829/bk_adbl_005829_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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On the Road
On the Road ab 7.99 € als epub eBook: Die Beat-Poeten Allen Ginsberg Neal Cassady William S. Burroughs Jack Kerouac. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft,- Shop: hugendubel
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Queer Beats: How the Beats Turned America On to Sex , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 354min
Among the unconventional attitudes of the Beat writers as they rebelled against the conformism of the late 1940s and 1950s was their relaxed stance on sexuality. At a time when gay people were considered mentally ill or criminal, the Beats celebrated spontaneity and freedom in thought, word, and action. They were queer in the fullest sense of the word: their fluid sexuality challenged all sexual and romantic conventions. Combining fiction, letters, and poetry, Queer Beats explores the sexual pulse that throbbed throughout the Beats' writings - from the perverse "cut-up" prose of William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch and the homoerotic poetry of Allen Ginsberg to Jack Kerouac's letter to Neal Cassady in which he declares (despite sexual encounters with Ginsberg and Gore Vidal): "Posterity will laugh at me if it thinks I was queer." This collection also includes writings by Diane di Prima, Frank O'Hara, Herbert Huncke, Elise Cowen, Robert Duncan, and others. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rob Shapiro, Alix Dale. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/000747/bk_acx0_000747_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Jerry on Jerry: The Unpublished Jerry Garcia Interviews , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 330min
These never-before-published interviews with Jerry Garcia reveal his thoughts on religion, politics, his personal life, and his creative process. Jerry on Jerry provides new insight into the beloved frontman of the Grateful Dead in time for the 50th anniversary of the band. Released by the Jerry Garcia Family estate and made available to the public for the first time, these are some of the most candid, intimate interviews with Jerry Garcia ever published. Here Garcia speaks openly about everything from growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area and his first encounters with early R&B to his thoughts on songwriting, LSD, the Beats and Neal Cassady, government, movies, and more. Jerry on Jerry presents uniquely poignant, unguarded, and astute moments, showing a side of Jerry that even his biggest fans have not known. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jerry Garcia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/002156/bk_hach_002156_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 668min
Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouac's classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be "beat" and has inspired generations of writers, musicians, artists, poets, and seekers who cite their discovery of the book as the event that "set them free". Based on Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose four cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naïveté and wild abandon, and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Will Patton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/000758/bk_peng_000758_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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One and Only: The Untold Story of On the Road , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 383min
Lu Anne Henderson was a beautiful 15-year-old girl in Denver in 1945 when she met Neal Cassady, a fast-talking hurricane of male sexuality and vast promises. The two married, and soon they were hanging out with a group of young would-be writers, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. But Neal and Jack initially didn’t like each other very much. Lu Anne ended up loving them both, and she taught them how to love each other - in effect, making the Beat Generation possible, as well as giving Kerouac material for one of the seminal novels of the 20th century, On the Road. One and Only traces the immense struggles of Lu Anne’s own life, which ranged from the split-up of her family during the Great Depression, to the ravages of abusive men and the grief of losing the two most important men in her life; and shows how her life intertwined with Jack’s and Neal’s to the very end. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Vanessa Hart, Stephen Bowlby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000605/bk_high_000605_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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