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Cover of The American Express

The American Express

✍ Scribed by Gregory Corso


Publisher
Disruptive Publishing
Year
1961
Tongue
English
Weight
494 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1626575126

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✦ Synopsis


Beat poet Corso's only novel. Inspired by his days in Europe, anxiously waiting for royalty checks and advances that were slow to appear, this freewheeling and farcical tale is the account of a birth in AmEx, and what came of it. With illustrations by the author. First published 1961 as No. 85 in the Traveller's Companion Series. First American publication.


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