Memoirs of a Beatnik
New York: Olympia Press, 1969.
174 pp. Traveller’s Companion Series. Bound in green printed wraps. Minimal shelf wear along edges; spine tight, pages clean and bright.
First edition of di Prima’s candid, semi-autobiographical novel chronicling the erotic, artistic, and intellectual life of a young woman navigating the bohemian Beat scene of 1950s New York. Published by Olympia Press in its Traveller’s Companion Series, renowned for avant-garde and transgressive literature, including works by Burroughs and Nabokov.
Written with fearless honesty and lyrical immediacy, Memoirs of a Beatnik captures the freedom and vulnerability of the post-war counterculture from a distinctly feminist perspective.. Very Good+. Item #258
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