by Barbara Probst Solomon

The Beat of Life, a literary sensation when published, was acclaimed by The New Yorker, Dwight Macdonald, John Braine (Room at the Top), Irving Howe and Colin Wilson, and hailed as '...the most scalding story of precocious love since Devil in the Flesh.' A rare record of what the late '50s and '60s felt like to a young woman writer living in New York in the time of the Beats, just before the Women's Movement.