$34.32
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2006
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 |
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| 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 |
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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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