Go by John Clellon Holmes - ISBN: 9780141188393
Paperback
Before Kerouac, experience the raw, uncensored dawn of the Beat Generation.

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    352 pages

  • Release Date

    1 May 2006

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Summary

‘The first and, in some respects, still one of the best novels about the Beat Generation… brilliant and important’ The Los Angeles Free Press

The novel that launched the beat generation’s literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady. Published two months before Kerouac began ON THE ROAD, GO is the first and most accurate chronicle of the private lives the Beats lived before they became public figures. In lucid fictiona…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141188393
ISBN-10:0141188391
Author:John Clellon Holmes, James Atlas
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:1 May 2006
Weight:268g
Dimensions:197mm x 131mm x 23mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
About The Author

John Clellon Holmes

John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988) was an essayist, poet, and novelist; and was a “sometime member” of the Beat Generation. He published GO in 1952; The Horn, a novel about jazz, would follow in 1958, and Get Home Free, depicting the later fate of two characters from Go, would appear in 1964.

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