New York. San Francisco. Paris
By the age of 30, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs - the leading members of what was to become the Beat Generation - were all familiar with mental hospitals and prisons. This book charts the transformation of their experiences of madness and criminality from 1940s New York to Paris, San Francisco and Mexico City, and reveals the background and the influences on their unique and experimental literature that produced a cult literary movement which spread across the globe.
