{"product_id":"a-blue-hand-9780143416890","title":"A Blue Hand","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Deborah Baker\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1961, the American poet Allen Ginsberg left New York by boat forBombay. He brought with him his troubled lover, Peter Orlovsky, anda plan to meet up with poets Gary Snyder and Joanne Kyger. He leftbehind not only fellow Beats Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, and WilliamBurroughs, but also the relentless notoriety that followed the publicationof Howl, the epic work that branded him the voice of a generation.A Blue Hand deftly weaves a many-layered literary mystery out ofGinsberg’s odyssey, recounting the Beats’ quest for God, for truth, andfor peace in the shadow of the atom bomb. Drawing from extensiveresearch, undiscovered letters, journals and memoirs, acclaimedbiographer Deborah Baker follows the poet and his companions as theytravel from the ashrams of the Himalayan foothills to Delhi opium densand the burning pyres of Benares. They encounter an India of charlatansand saints, a country of spectacular beauty and spiritual promise as wellas devastating poverty and political unease.In their restless, tortured and often comic search for meaning, the Beatslooked to India for answers while India looked to the West. A Blue Hand isas much a brilliant account of Ginsberg’s journey as it is a story of India inthe 1960s—its gods and its poets, its politics and its place in the Americanimagination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46296398594199,"sku":"9780143416890","price":228.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780143416890.webp?v=1769304620","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-blue-hand-9780143416890","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}