A Blue Hand: The Beats in India

Baker, Deborah

ISBN 10: 1594201587 / ISBN 13: 9781594201585

Verlag: Penguin Press HC, The, 2008

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A literary exploration of the Beats' encounter with India in the 1960s follows the journey of Allen Ginsberg and his companions through the ashrams of the Himalayan foothills, to the Delhi opium dens, to the pyres of Benares, where they witnessed regional spirituality and unrest while searching for the elusive Hope Savage. 25,000 first printing.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: In 1990 Deborah Baker moved to Calcutta where she studied Bengali and wrote In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding, a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Biography. Since then, her essays have appeared in a range of publications from The New York Times to the Calcutta Statesmen. With her husband, the writer Amitav Ghosh, and her two children Lila and Nayan, she now divides her time between Calcutta, Goa and Brooklyn.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Blue Hand: The Beats in India
Verlag: Penguin Press HC, The
Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: good