The Beats - A Graphic Novel

Harvey Pekar, Paul Buhle, Ed Piskor

Souvenir Press

2009

208 páginas

6h 56m

ISBN-13: 9780285638587

During World War Two a group of friends in New York would begin a cultural revolution. Over the following decades Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs would write their own masterpieces but taken together, as the Beats, they would also become a focal point for a literary explosion and a generation of revolution. Their story is explored through the graphic art of a variety of artists. The artwork in The Beats is as vibrant as the writing and lifestyles of the Beat movement itself, and is a tribute to a generation in a form and style as original as its subject. The Beats explores the political roots of the movement and its influence on the demand for women s rights, as well as its influence on other cultural forms: art and music.