The cool school : writing from America's hip underground /
In this anthology of memoirs, poems, novels, comedy routines, letters, essays, and song lyrics, O'Brien provides a kaleidoscopic guided tour through the subterranean scenes and tribes that gave birth to cool: the worlds of jazz, of disaffected postwar youth, of the racially and sexually exclude...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Library of America,
[2013]
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| Summary: | In this anthology of memoirs, poems, novels, comedy routines, letters, essays, and song lyrics, O'Brien provides a kaleidoscopic guided tour through the subterranean scenes and tribes that gave birth to cool: the worlds of jazz, of disaffected postwar youth, of the racially and sexually excluded, of outlaws and drug users creating their own dissident networks. |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 471 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1598532561 9781598532562 |