Wannabeat

Set against the backdrop of a generation awakening from its countercultural dreams to the realities of a materialistic society – San Francisco in the late 1970s – Philip Polarov is a would-be writer scraping by while attempting to turn his self-described “stream of drivel” into an Important Novel.

As the last soldiers of the Beat Generation become ghosts, and the Baby Beats, a clique of their acolytes, take over the bars and coffeehouses, Philip searches for meaning, sex, drugs ... and an af...