WannaBeat

<b>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.</b><br><br>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 affordable place to crash. <i>WannaBeat</i> is an incisive and provocative novel about yearning for authenticity in the face of an increasingly artificial reality.