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  • Go

    John Clellon Holmes

    Paperback (Carroll & Graf, Sept. 5, 2002)
    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. "... still one of the best novels about the Beat Generation ... brilliant and important."-Los Angeles Free Press "I want to write to you about ... your book. You did the honest thing, the big thing, the good thing."-Jack Kerouac "Go signaled the start of something new in American literature. A generation with a new consciousness had found its voice..."-Ann Charters
  • Go: A Novel

    John Clellon Holmes

    eBook (Open Road Media, Oct. 20, 2015)
    Before the world knew Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Cassady, this “brilliant and important” novel chronicled the author’s early years among the Beats (Los Angeles Free Press). Published five 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 friends, Paul frequently participates in their reckless, self-indulgent behavior. Yet his innate solemnness makes him an outsider, as does his commitment to his marriage. As Paul seeks to strike the right balance between experimentation and orthodoxy, freedom and obligation, he casts a discerning eye on his peers. The result is a thrilling and indispensible portrait of the Beat movement before it took America by storm.
  • Go

    John Clellon Holmes

    Paperback (Penguin Books, March 30, 2006)
    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 fictional prose designed to capture the events, emptions and essence of his experience, Holmes describes an individualistic post-World II New York where crime is celebrated, writing is revered, and parties, booze, discussions, drugs and sex punctuate life.
  • Go: A Novel

    John Clellon Holmes

    Paperback (Thunder's Mouth Pr, Oct. 16, 1997)
    Generally acknowledged to be the first Beat novel, go was originally published in 1952, five years before Kerouac's On the Road. "John Clellon Holmes became the Beat Generation's chief chronicler."--Newsweek.
  • Go: A novel

    John Clellon Holmes

    Hardcover (Distributed by Consortium Book Sales, Aug. 16, 1988)
    Generally acknowledged to be the first Beat novel, go was originally published in 1952, five years before Kerouac's On the Road. "John Clellon Holmes became the Beat Generation's chief chronicler."--Newsweek.
  • Go

    John Clellon Holmes

    Hardcover (P. P. Appel, Aug. 16, 1977)
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  • Go

    John Clellon Holmes

    Paperback (Plume, Oct. 2, 1980)
    Vintage paperback
  • Go: A Novel

    John Clellon Holmes

    Paperback (Thunder's Mouth Pr, Oct. 16, 1988)
    Generally acknowledged to be the first Beat novel, go was originally published in 1952, five years before Kerouac's On the Road. "John Clellon Holmes became the Beat Generation's chief chronicler."--Newsweek.
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    Clellon Holmes

    Hardcover (Scribners, Aug. 16, 1951)
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  • Go

    Holmes Clellon

    Paperback (ACE, Aug. 16, 1952)
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  • Go

    John Clellon Holmes

    Paperback (Penguin Classics, Aug. 16, 1882)
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