Description: Some tears to dustjacket but otherwise clean and solid “The Frisco Kid is the story of real people, the bohemians who came to be called Beats, of a real place, North Beach San Francisco, and a real time, the late 1950s and early 1960s. "When I arrived in San Francisco in 1957, writes Jerry Kamstra, "I discovered a community existing on the edge of the city unlike any other in America. Reckless, creative, frenetic, insane, it was too insane for a lot of people, for not many survived. I did, however, and in surviving came of age in the cheap pads and artists' lofts in North Beach. In the process I lost my innocence and my youth, but gained an indelible memory of a bunch of crazy people who lived, fought, struggled, loved, and even died together with a sense of élan and community that I had never experienced before nor have found since. "Writers often dream of being able to record what their friends say and do as they are saying and doing them. Some writers are able to do that, but for me time has to crystallize events, compress them like the effluvia of roots and flowers into hard bright diamonds before the light can be seen. "Real people cannot be pinned up on a wall and examined at leisure, however, especially people who were moving at the frenetic pace of my friends. I had to let them stop, and go crazy, and die before I could properly see them?" So out of the time and memories of more than a decade and a half ago comes The Frisco Kid.”
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Location: Chico, California
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Publication Year: 1975
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: Frisco Kid
Author: Jerry Kamstra
Publisher: Harper & Row
Edition: First Edition
