Piers of the Homeless Night

'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...'

Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

„Vedeti-mi mana cu varful in sus, aflati secretul inimii mele umane ...” Instantane in crestere, in roate libere, ale vietii pe drumurile din America, de la scriitorul Beat care a inspirat o generatie. Penguin Modern: cincizeci de carti noi care sarbatoresc spiritul de pionierat din seria iconica Penguin Modern Classics, fiecare oferind un hit concentrat al aromei sale contemporane, internationale.