The daring debut of the Beat Generation's first woman novelist It's
1955. Seven days before her graduation from Barnard College, Susan
Levitt asks herself, "What if you lived your entire life without
urgency?" just before going out to make things happen to her that
will shatter the mask of conformity concealing her feelings of
alienation. If Susan continues to be "good," marriage and security
await her. But her hunger is rising for the self-discovery that
comes from existential freedom. After breaking up with the Columbia
boy she knows she could marry, Susan seeks out those she considers
"outlaws": the brave and fragile Kay, who has moved into a rundown
hotel, in order to "see more than fifty percent when I walk down
the street"; the vulnerable adolescent rebel Anthony; and Peter,
the restless hipster graduate student who has become the object of
Kay's unrequited devotion. This fascinating novel-which the author
began writing a year before her encounter with Jack Kerouac-is a
young woman's complex response to the liberating messages of the
Beat Generation. In a subversive feminist move, Johnson gives her
heroine all the freedom the male Beat writers reserved for men, to
travel her own road.
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