Go : a novel

Resource Information

The work Go : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Go : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

by John Clellon Holmes

Creator

• Holmes, John Clellon, 1926-1988

Subject

• Authors
• Young men
• Beat generation -- Fiction
• Bildungsromans
• Autobiographical fiction
• Authors -- Fiction
• New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
• New York (State) -- New York
• Young men -- Fiction
• Fiction
• Beat generation

Genre

• Fiction
• Bildungsromans
• Autobiographical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

The novel that launched the beat generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Neil Cassady. Drafted two months before Jack Kerouac began On The Road, Go is the first and most accurate chronicle of the private lives lived by the Beats before they became public figures. In honest, lucid fictional prose designed to capture the events, emotions, and essence of his experience among the Beats, Holmes describes an individualistic post--World War II New York where crime is celebrated, writing is revered, and parties, booze, discussions, drugs, and sex punctuate life. The most tentative and conservative of the Beats, Holmes's intelligent and sensitive voice also details the pressures and regrets that his lifestyle gave birth to. With portraits of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neil Cassady, William Burroughs, this first novel about the Beat Generation gives us a peek into what it meant to be a Beat before the term had ever been used

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3558.O3594

LC item number

G6 1997

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries