WannaBeat
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- ISBN 9798987989173
- Weight: 295g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jun 2024
- Publisher: Trouser Press Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Set against the backdrop of a generation awakening from its countercultural dreams to the realities of a materialistic society – San Francisco in the late 1970s – Philip Polarov is a would-be writer scraping by while attempting to turn his self-described “stream of drivel” into an Important Novel.
As the last soldiers of the Beat Generation become ghosts, and the Baby Beats, a clique of their acolytes, take over the bars and coffeehouses, Philip searches for meaning, sex, drugs ... and an affordable place to crash. WannaBeat is an incisive and provocative novel about yearning for authenticity in the face of an increasingly artificial reality.
As the last soldiers of the Beat Generation become ghosts, and the Baby Beats, a clique of their acolytes, take over the bars and coffeehouses, Philip searches for meaning, sex, drugs ... and an affordable place to crash. WannaBeat is an incisive and provocative novel about yearning for authenticity in the face of an increasingly artificial reality.
David Polonoff is a writer and chronicler of bohemia, having participated in most of the countercultural movements of the last 50 years, from Haight-Ashbury to Punk to Dimes Square, while earning degrees in philosophy from Yale and NYU. His satirical writing on culture and politics appeared regularly in the Village Voice, East Village Eye and New York Newsday in the 1980s/early ’90s and was later collected in the book Down the Yup Staircase. He blogged for many years about dotcom and IT culture, while working as a quality assurance engineer, designing test suites for financial systems. He is adept in the culture of both coasts, though he currently prefers to live in New York.
