The awakener, a memoir of Kerouac and the fifties, Helen Weaver
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The awakener, a memoir of Kerouac and the fifties, Helen Weaver
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eng
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non fiction
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The awakener
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Helen Weaver
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a memoir of Kerouac and the fifties
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The Awakener is Helen Weaver's long awaited memoir of her adventures with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lenny Bruce, and other wild characters from the New York City of the fifties and sixties. The sheltered but rebellious daughter of bookish Midwestern parents, Weaver survived a repressive upbringing in the wealthy suburbs of Scarsdale and an early divorce to land in Greenwich Village just in time for the birth of rock 'n' roll--and the counterculture movement known as the Beat Generation. Shortly after her arrival Kerouac, Ginsberg, and company--old friends of her roommate--arrive on their doorstep after a non-stop drive from Mexico. Weaver and Kerouac fall in love on sight, and Kerouac moves in
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