num_pages: 136
description: Written in 1957, the same year that On the Road was first published, and set in 1953, here is the heart and soul of the beat mentality, the zeitgeist that blossomed over the decadesBeat Generation is a play about tension, about friendship, and about karma — what it is and how you get it. It begins one fine morning with a few friends, honest laborers some of them, some close to being down-and-out, passing around a bottle of wine. It ends with a kind of satori-like reaffirmation of the power of friendship, of doing good through not doing, and the intrinsic worth of the throw-away little exchanges that make up our lives.
language: English
title: Beat Generation: The Lost Work
titlecomplete: Beat Generation: The Lost Work
genres: American, Theatre, Historical, Drama, Plays, Poetry, Literature, Classics, The United States Of America, Fiction
ratings_count: 594
publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press