Beatniks: An English Road Movie

by T Litt (Author)

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  Paperback
  1998

  $4.89

  'When was the last time you created a generation?' Toby Litt's debut novel BEATNIKS is both testomony to Hipness and a warning against the dangers of its excesses. It is 1995. At a party in Bedford, Mary, the novel's narrator has just met Jack and Neal, a couple of angel-headed hipsters and Bedford's very own self-confessed 'Beats'. After joining them for a 'Beat Happening' at the public library, the three of them (and Neal's cat Koko) set off in Mary's 'P' Reg Vauxhall on a road trip to Brighton, where Jack is hell-bent on creating his literary magazine, Cafe Bohemia. But Mary soon discovers that Jack's obsession with hipness is overbearing. And it won't be until Neal has gone missing on Beachy Head, and Mary and Jack have gone on another road trip, that things will return to some sort of normality.

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  Paperback
  2004

  $4.24

  1995, and at a party in Bedford, Mary meets Jack and Neal, a pair of hipsters and self-confessed Beats' stuck (un)squarely in the sixties. After a Beat (not-quite) Happening' at the local library, the three of them (and Neal's cat Koko) set off in Mary's Vauxhall on a road trip to Brighton in search of literary fame and fortune. But, this is neither the time nor the place for free love, uncomplicated sex and unrestrained cool this is 1990s Britain and everything comes with a price

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $3.33

  At a party in Bedford in 1995, Mary meets Jack and Neal, a couple of angel headed hipsters, and the town's very own local Beats. After a Beat Happening at the public library, she joins them for a chaotic road trip, first to the English seaside resort of Brighton, and then to Ameri-ca, where, as they drive to San Francisco, Jack's dreams prove hard to live with. The London Guardian wrote in February 2002 of the high praise won by Toby Litt, one of the most prolific of the newer generation of British novelists . . . the writer who brought you Beatniks, an ingenious English On The Road of the mid-1990s, [and] Corpsing, a successful raid on the manor of the crime thriller . . . Litt has a lot to show us.