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300 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780813135809
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 27 April 2012
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Originating from underworld slang-the domain of hustlers, drug addicts, and petty thieves-the term "Beat" was short for "beaten down" or downtrodden. To writer Jack Kerouac it symbolized being at the bottom of society's hierarchy and looking up. K...
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300 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780813135809
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 27 April 2012
Description
Originating from underworld slang-the domain of hustlers, drug addicts, and petty thieves-the term "Beat" was short for "beaten down" or downtrodden. To writer Jack Kerouac it symbolized being at the bottom of society's hierarchy and looking up. K...