Beatniks (novel)

Beatniks: An English Road Movie (1997) is a novel by British author Toby Litt set in Bedford in The United Kingdom in 1995, and concerns the adventures of a group of young people who admire the Beat Writers and Musicians of the 1950s and 1960s America. Initially published by Secker & Warburg in 1997.

Plot summary

Mary (a recent graduate from University) meets Jack, Maggie and Neal at a party and learns that despite it being The UK of 1995, they yearn for the life of a Beatnik in 1960s America. Fascinated by the group (especially the handsome, if difficult Jack) she embarks on an adventure with them, finding both love and tragedy on the way.

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Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

Beatniks is being turned into a film by Jarvis.[1]

Footnotes

  1. "The New Bawdy - an Interview with Toby Litt". 3ammagazine.com. Archived from the original on 25 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-05.

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