The Awakener: A Memoir of Jack Kerouac and the Fifties

Helen Weaver's insightful and riveting memoir of love and friendship with Jack Kerouac and the Beats.

Author: Helen Weaver
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 11/01/2009
Pages: 180
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.78w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780872865051

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/14/2009 pg. 39
Library Journal 10/01/2009 pg. 78
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2009
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 282

About the Author

Helen Weaver translated over fifty books from the French including Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a 1976 Finalist for the National Book Award in Translation. She was co-author and general editor of the Larousse Enyclopedia of Astrology and author of The Daisy Sutra, a book on animal communication. She died in April of 2021.