The Awakener: A Memoir of Jack Kerouac and the Fifties

by Helen Weaver

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 in the wealthy suburbs of Scarsdale and an early divorce to land in Greenwich Village just in time for the birth of rock 'n' roll--and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872865053
• ISBN13: 9780872865051
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.5"