Come and Join the Dance

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781480481329

<DIV><B>The daring debut of the Beat Generation&rsquo;s first woman novelist</B><BR /><BR />It&rsquo;s 1955. Seven days before her graduation from Barnard College, Susan Levitt asks herself, &ldquo;What if you lived your entire life without urgency?&rdquo; just before going out to&#160;&#160; make things happen to her that will shatter the mask of conformity concealing her feelings of alienation. If Susan continues to be &ldquo;good,&rdquo; marriage and security await her. But her hunger is rising for the self-discovery that comes from existential freedom.&#160;&#160;&#160;<BR /><BR />After breaking up with the Columbia boy she knows she could marry, Susan seeks out those she considers &ldquo;outlaws&rdquo;: the brave and fragile Kay, who has moved into a rundown hotel, in order to &ldquo;see more than fifty percent when I walk down the street&rdquo;; the vulnerable adolescent rebel Anthony; and Peter, the restless hipster graduate student who has become the object of Kay&rsquo;s unrequited devotion.<BR /><BR />This fascinating novel&mdash;which the author began writing a year before her encounter with Jack Kerouac&mdash;is a young woman&rsquo;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.</DIV>