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  Go (Paperback) By (author) John Clellon Holmes, Introduction by James Atlas

  

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  Short Description for GoDescribes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady. This novel chronicles the private lives the Beats lived before they became public figures. It also describes an individualistic post-World II New York where crime is celebrated, writing is revered, and parties, booze, discussions, drugs and sex punctuate life.
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  • Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
  • Published: 30 March 2006
  • Format: Paperback 352 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780141188393 ISBN 10: 0141188391
  • Sales rank: 150,319

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Full description for Go

• 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.