Go
A Novel
The novel that introduced the world to the Beat Generation Published 5 years before On the Road, this candid and perceptive roman à clef chronicles the adventures of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Neal Cassady before they became literary icons. In dive bars and all-night diners, cabs racing across Manhattan and squalid apartments sticky with tea smoke, these would-be artists pursue the ecstatic experiences that shape their work and satisfy their restless desire to live beyond the limits of convention. At the heart of Go is Paul Hobbes, the alter ego of John Clellon Holmes. An aspiring novelist who shares the same creative interests as his…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5040-2229-3
- EAN: 9781504022293
- Produktnummer: 19291751
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 344 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'536 KB
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John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988) was an American novelist, essayist, and poet. He is best remembered for Go (1952), a roman à clef chronicling his experiences with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Neal Cassady in New York City in the 1940s. Published five years before On the Road and distinguished by its emotional honesty, its meticulous attention to detail, and its lyrical evocation of the restlessness that defined post-World War II Manhattan, Go is widely considered to be the first Beat novel and one of the finest. Kerouac coined the term beat generation in a conversation with Holmes, who in turn introduced it to the world in a seminal article published in the November 16, 1952 issue of the New York Times Magazine: This Is the Beat Generation. Holmes's other works include the novels Get Home Free (1964) and The Horn (1953), the latter of which was declared by the San Francisco Chronicle to be the most successful novel about jazz that has ever been published; the poetry volumes Dire Coasts (1988) and Night Music (1989); and Nothing More to Declare (1967), a collection of essays.
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