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Original Title:	Go
ISBN:	0141188391 (ISBN13: 9780141188393)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New York City, New York(United States)

Go

John Clellon Holmes

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

Rating: 3.8 | 1620 Users | 101 Reviews

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Title	:	Go
Author	:	John Clellon Holmes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	March 30th 2006 by Penguin Modern Classics (first published 1952)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Novels. Literature

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The novel that launched the beat generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neil 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-war II New York where crime is celebrated, writing is revered, and parties, booze, discussions, drugs and sex punctuate life.

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Ratings: 3.8 From 1620 Users | 101 Reviews

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Excellent! This is virtually all true and the portraits here of the big three (Ginsberg, Kerouac and Cassady) are great to see. Ginsberg, especially, gets a starring role in this, as compared to On the Road, where he plays second fiddle. We get to see his real caring nature, his eclectic personality, and his devilish playfulness, including instigating multiple conflicts based on his psychological insightful challenges toward his friends. Amazingly, Cassady comes off nearly the same person as



I felt moved at the end. As terrible and beautiful as The Great Gatsby. Holmes had a tender insight into 'what matters' in life, even at age 23 or 26 or whenever he wrote this. I came to Go assuming it would be a timepiece, dated but interesting. I closed the book feeling very alive to the moment that I myself live in. Not a timepiece. Go is timeless.

If you think that the whole notion of the Beat Generation sprang from the head of Jack Kerouac when he wrote On the Road, you're wrong. Before Kerouac, there was John Clellon Holmes with Go, which -- partly fiction and partly autobiography -- tells of the frenetic search for liberation through drugs, alcohol, and even friendship that marked that strange group of young men who formed the core of the movement.Holmes does, however, change their names: Holmes becomes Paul Hobbes; Kerouac, Gene

Really awesome, like a postmodern "On The Road" you'd think was written last year deliberately to subvert the mythic image, when in fact the reverse is true: this book was the first one to use the phrase "beat generation" and was actually published before "On The Road", though it's not as well known. John Clellon Holmes was one of the Beats' inner circle before Jack Kerouac's fame started the beatnik craze. "Go" gives a more balanced portrayal of how that scene felt from the inside than

I really really loved this book. I wasn't sure what to expect, being about the Beats but not by Kerouac, but it was phenomenally good. Holmes doesn't have Kerouac's beautiful prose but he has an intensity that I found really appealing. He gave so much insight into his characters and their inner battles. The dialogue was great, their were so many memorable scenes even though so much of it was a whirlwind of parties and bar hoping. Despite being published in the 50s it was full of sex and drugs

Having read most of Jack Kerouac's books about this period in time, it was interesting to read about it from a different perspective. Holmes definitely takes a more sober view of everything than Kerouac did. Kerouac was all about the kicks, and Holmes is all about the consequences.If you are reading the same edition as me, don't read the forward first. It reprints the entire last two paragraphs of the book.