Brother-souls
Subtitle: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat generation
By: Ann Charters and Samuel Charters
Contributors: Charters, Samuel Barclay
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9781604735796; 9781604735802
Subjects: Beat generation; Friends and associates; American Authors; Biography
Description: "John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were--in Holmes's words--'Brother Souls.' Both were neophyte novelists, hungry for literary fame but just as hungry to find a new way of responding to their experiences in a postwar American society that for them had lost its direction. Late one night as they sat talking, Kerouac spontaneously created the term 'Beat Generation' to describe this new attitude they felt stirring around them. Brother Souls is the remarkable chronicle of this cornerstone friendship and the life of John Clellon Holmes."--from Amazon.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.