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Herbert Huncke: The Times Square Hustler Who Inspired Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation

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Herbert Huncke: The Times Square Hustler Who Inspired Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation - Holladay, Hilary
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Muse and mentor to Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac--who said of him, "Huncke is the greatest storyteller I know, an absolute genius at it"-- Herbert Huncke steps out of the shadow of his more famous peers in this absorbing and tender biography by Hilary Holladay. In this richly-layered portrait, the unsung bard of the streets emerges in all his tattered glory: his painful childhood and adolescent rebellion; run-ins with the law; adventures at sea and riding the rails; and later life in his beloved New ...

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Herbert Huncke: The Times Square Hustler Who Inspired Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation 2015, Schaffner Press, Tucson

ISBN-13: 9781936182800

2nd Second Edition, Second edition

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