The Frisco Kid

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  • 1975

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Jerry Kamstra

Jerry Kamstra is an American author and poet. A member of the beat generation, he is most widely known for his novel "The Frisco Kid", which details his experience living in North Beach in the 1950s, at height of the beat movement.

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Beat generation

The Beat Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired (later sometimes called "beatniks"). Central elements of "Beat" culture include a rejection of mainstream American values,...
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