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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.

Before the beats had become the Beats-that occurred later on in the 1950s, after the publication of On the Road-John Clellon Holmes charted in Go their manic exploration of the unconscious, their feverish quest for experience, their glorification of crime. It was he who introduced... Read Full Overview

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.

Before the beats had become the Beats-that occurred later on in the 1950s, after the publication of On the Road-John Clellon Holmes charted in Go their manic exploration of the unconscious, their feverish quest for experience, their glorification of crime. It was he who introduced... Read Full Overview

Before the beats had become the Beats-that occurred later on in the 1950s, after the publication of On the Road-John Clellon Holmes charted in Go their manic exploration of the unconscious, their feverish quest for experience, their glorification of crime. It was he who introduced... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Before the beats had become the Beats-that occurred later on in the 1950s, after the publication of On the Road-John Clellon Holmes charted in Go their manic exploration of the unconscious, their feverish quest for experience, their glorification of crime. It was he who introduced... Read Full Overview