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The Awakener: A Memoir of Kerouac and the Fifties
The Awakener A Memoir of Kerouac and the Fifties Author:Helen Weaver “Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! . . . This is the most graphic, honest, shameless, and moving documentary of what the newly liberated women in cities got up to?how they lived, loved, and created. Who knew? It is time they did! And here’s how.”?Carolyn Cassady The Awakener is an intimate memoir of th... more »e author’s adventures and coming-of-age alongside Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lenny Bruce, and other wild characters from the New York City of the '50s and early '60s. Helen Weaver has translated over fifty books from the French. She lives in Kingston, New York.« less