Beat Generation (play)

Beat Generation (play)

Infobox Book
name = Beat Generation


author = Jack Kerouac
cover_artist =
country = USA
language = English
genre = Play
publisher = Oneworld Classics/ Da Capo Press
release_date = 2005
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
isbn = 978-1847490070

"Beat Generation" is a play that Jack Kerouac wrote upon returning home to Florida after his seminal work "On the Road" had been published in 1957. Gerald Nicosia, a Kerouac biographer and family friend has said that theatre producer Leo Gavin suggested that Kerouac should write a play; the outcome being "Beat Generation".

After being written it was rejected by theatre companies and was shelved in warehouse storage until being re-discovered in a New Jersey warehouse in 2005.

Since then excerpts have appeared in "Best Life Magazine" (July 2005)

External links

* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1488451,00.html Guardian Newspaper article on 'Beat Generation's' re-emergence]


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