JUNIOR BIRDMAN

Billy Bones (William J. Barker writing as)

Verlag: privately published, 1963

Beschreibung

Junior Birdman was written by the poet, novelist, actor, and raconteur William J. Barker and published under the pseudonym "Billy Bones" in the 1960s. Distributed principally among friends, the book has long been known as one of the great "forgotten" texts. It was never published commercially, and copies are difficult to locate today. "Set in the 1950s and the early 1960s, the novel concerns a group of friends freeing themselves from the conventions of American life. In a world reminiscent of Kerouac's, their adventures take them to Los Angeles, Acapulco, New York, Fire Island, Paris, and elsewhere. Few works equal Junior Birdman as the record of an era when the United States was moving away from the conformity of the 1950s into the freedoms of the 1960s. Near the end of the novel, the narrator says, ". . . the industrial exploitation of sex and the impending wave of eroticism in publicity and in films puts a question mark in all our lives: the liberation of the sexes and the need for a new morality." That "new morality" is the book's primary focus." Talisman Poetry Journal #41William J. Barker ("Billy Bones") 136 pp. pale blue and black oblong softcover unmarked. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 511n

Bibliografische Details

Titel: JUNIOR BIRDMAN

Verlag: privately published

Erscheinungsdatum: 1963

Einband: Soft cover

Illustrator: cover photo J-L Parisot

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: Limited Edition.