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Click to read more about go by john clellon holmes. The novel that served as a starting point for the beat generation, go collects the vicissitudes of john clellon holmes with his friends allen ginsberg, jack. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Mar 26, 20 we recently passed a watershed moment in modern american literature, as november, 2012, marked sixty years since john clellon holmes introduced the term beat generation in the new york times magazine. An aspiring novelist who shares the same creative interests as his friends, paul frequently participates in their reckless, selfindulgent behavior. The novel that launched the beat generations literary legacy describes the world of jack kerouac, allen ginsberg and neal cassady. His seminal beat novel go, also published sixty years ago five years. Previously, johns sister elizabeth had published a memoir of life with her brother and his friends in new york city between 19471954, of which the beat scene press edition is an extract. Author of go, the horn, get home free, visitor, nothing more to declare, death drag, the bowling green poems, stubborn pumpkinyellow maple leaves. Buy go penguin modern classics by holmes, john clellon, atlas, james from amazons fiction books store.
He is the author of go, the horn and representative men. John clellon holmes, 62, novelist and poet of the beat. John clellon holmes march 12, 1926, holyoke, massachusetts march 30, 1988, middletown, connecticut was an american author, poet and professor, best known for his 1952 novel go. But if he is himself a beatnik, he is a beatnik with insight, a coherent beatnik. John clellon holmes died in middleton, connecticut on march 2, 1988. John clellon holmes has 16 books on goodreads with 8984 ratings. Go is considered the first beat novel, and depicted events in his life with friends jack kerouac, neal cassady and allen ginsberg. Go by john clellon holmes 2002, paperback for sale online.
Go, by john clellon holmes, is the first novel published by a member of the socalled beat generation of the 1950s in the united states. To the degree that holmes thought was influenced by existentialism, was he closer to the position of sartre or kierkegaard. Go by john clellon holmes and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The main theme of this essay is to answer the question we are left with after reading charters discussion.
John clellon holmes books list of books by author john. Hardcover with dust jacket, first edition first printing. The classic jazz novel of new yorks bebop scene and a brilliant musicians tragic fall. Yet his innate solemnness makes him an outsider, as does his commitment to his marriage. John clellon holmes author john clellon holmes 19261988 was an american novelist, essayist, and poet. Go by john clellon holmes overdrive rakuten overdrive. The years immediately following world war ii saw america emerge as a prosperous world power, but the beats, whose name was derived from beatitude or beatific, felt that something was missing. At the heart of go is paul hobbes, the alter ego of john clellon holmes. His novel go was not so ambitious as a work of art as jack kerouacs on the road, let alone the subterraneans. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension. A novel of new york today, go deals with a group of young people whose lives are frenetic and even violent. Go by john clellon holmes, 1997, thunders mouth press, distributed by publishers group west edition, in english.
Beat generation authors and poets, including jack kerouac. Below is an interview recollection of john clellon holmes from jacks book an oral biography of jack kerouac by barry gifford and lawrence lee. Because they want passionately to believe in something and cannot find it, they create strange illusions to live by, and they are driven by a craving for excess. Jan 03, 2019 go by john clellon holmes, 1997, thunders mouth press, distributed by publishers group west edition, in english. We recently passed a watershed moment in modern american literature, as november, 2012, marked sixty years since john clellon holmes introduced the term beat generation in the new york times magazine. In 1949, while jack kerouac was still revising and seeking a publisher for the town and the city, a sprawling autobiographical novel in the thomas wolfe mode with a few beat characters, john clellon holmes was working on a shorter, more concentrated fiction, bearing the working title of the daybreak boys.
See all books authored by john clellon holmes, including go, and the horn, and more on. John clellon holmes, a writer and a poet who was regarded as a spokesman for the beat generation, died of cancer yesterday at middlesex memorial hospital in middletown, conn. In honest, lucid fictional prose designed to capture the events, emotions, and essence. Jan 30, 2019 this is the beat generation by john clellon holmes this is the complete text of the article by john clellon holmes that ran in the new york times magazine on november 16, 1952. Buy a cheap copy of go book by john clellon holmes. Sam and anne charters published a revealing book about john clellon holmes in 2010. John clellon holmes holyoke, massachusetts, march 12, 1926 march 30, 1988 was an american author, poet and professor, best known for his 1952 novel go. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. John clellon holmes go is considered the first beat novel, and depicted events in his life with friends jack kerouac, neal cassady and allen ginsberg.
A novel by holmes, john clellon and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Published two months before kerouac began on the road, go is the first and most accurate chronicle of the private l. John clellon holmes, born in holyoke massachusetts, was an author, poet and professor, best known for his 1952 novel go. Go by john clellon holmes book cover, description, publication history. Previously, john s sister elizabeth had published a memoir of life with her brother and his friends in new york city between 19471954, of which the beat scene press edition is an extract. This is the beat generation by john clellon holmes. Against a backdrop of fastdrinking, wild jazz, and allnight parties, the young men and women of today who make up what they call the beat generation carry on their desperate search for a meaning to their lives. Holmes died in middleton, connecticut on march 2, 1988, leaving behind three novels and several books of poetry, essays and memoirs. John clellon holmes met jack kerouac on a hot new york city weekend in 1948, and until the end of kerouacs life they werein holmess wordsbrother souls. The horn, a novel about jazz, would follow in 1958, and get home free, depicting the later fate of two characters from go, would appear in 1964. In her essay, john clellon holmes and existentialism, ann charters leaves the reader with a question.
He was often referred to as the quiet beat, and was one of kerouacs closest friends. His first novel, go, introduced the world to the beats. Published five years before on the road, this candid and perceptive roman a clef chronicles the adventures of jack kerouac, allen. John clellon holmes is famous as the inventor of the beat generation.
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