The Jazz Master

In this evoca­tive and enter­tain­ing fic­tional mem­oir, nineteen-year-old Dan Hen­nessey takes us on a jour­ney to the epi­cen­ter of the beat move­ment?--?San Fran­cisco 1956, the year of Howl and The Dharma Bums. As he gets swept up in the fer­vor of the San Fran­cisco Renais­sance, he meets cul­tural icons such as Allen Gins­berg and Jack Ker­ouac, and spir­i­tual fig­ures like Alan Watts and Jiddu Krish­na­murti, each of whom serves as a cat­a­lyst for his awak­en­ing. But the man who...