A Memoir of Jack Kerouac and the Fifties
by
Helen Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
The Awakener is Helen Weaver's long awaited memoir of her adventures with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lenny Bruce, and other wild characters from the New York City of the fifties and sixties. The sheltered but rebellious daughter of bookish Midwestern parents, Weaver survived a repressive upbringing...