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The Beats: A Graphic History by Harvey Pekar

  • A gritty graphic biography of the Beat
    Generation (Kerouac, Ginsberg,
    Burroughs) that explores their literary
    influence alongside their dark reality of
    drug addiction, crime, and sexual
    controversy.

  • This book contains: abortion, activism,
    alcohol/abuse (extreme), drugs/abuse
    (extreme) drug dealing (extreme), alternate
    gender/sexual ideologies, animal cruelty
    (implied), anxiety, child neglect (implied),
    controversial cultural, gender, political,
    religious and social commentary, cults
    (referenced), death, depression, derogatory
    terms, discrimination, gore, grief, mental
    illness, murder, misogyny, pedophilia
    (themes), porn (referenced), profanity,
    prostitution, racism, sexual activities/nudity,
    smoking, stalking, suicide, theft and violence.

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