Alison Winfield Burns

Une jeune fille écossaise aristocratique et son amant - deux Américains.

Foreword with Kurt Cobain. Illustrated by Larry Rivers, Joe Brainard & Ted Berrigan, and the Authoress. Larger-than-life personalities including:

Lord Beaverbrook, Vere Harmsworth, Lady Campbell & Norman Mailer

Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Peter Orlovsky, Patti Smith; Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche & David Bowie; Mick Jagger

Misha Baryshnikov, Marilyn Monroe, Amy Winehouse, Elvis Presley

HRH Diana, Princess of Wales

Pope John Paul II

El Che Guevara

Billionaire Bruce Wasserstein; Socialite Mrs. Brooke Astor, and many more

With perhaps the most unaffected, spontaneous sex passages ever written, the authoress describes her romantic life with delightful result...A true account, fully documented, of literary adventures by literary adventurers. At the newly founded Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics -- a Buddhist school in Colorado led by an exiled Tibetan guru, the legendary Trungpa Rinpoche (1939-1987) -- Alison takes poetics class and falls in love with the boy of her dreams, fellow student Sam Kashner.

Unsuspecting of the adventures that await her, Alison leaves Colorado for Rome. She meets her two godmothers, Lady Jeanne Campbell and Benedictine Abbess Ildegarde of the Monache Camaldolesi, and lives with each of them in turn. She has a series of Candide-esque experiences amid the Roman aristocracy and inside a Roman cloister. Back in New York in 2010, hilarity and sincerity follow the star-crossed Alison (Alice) and Sam Kashner over three years of turmoil and fun!

The last Beat poet, Peter Orlovsky dies and Alison reads at his Manhattan memorial with rock star Patti Smith. Deciding to become a journalist, Alison embarks on a series of investigative articles that while published in national media, are unpaid work; she becomes homeless, unable to pay her Manhattan rent. Calamities aboard the New York subway in winter ensue.