Gone in October: Last Reflections on Jack Kerouac

by John Clellon Holmes

Book Overview

On the July 4th weekend of 1948, John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988) met Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) in New York City for the first time, and the two became lifelong friends. As a young, ambitious novelist, Holmes knew Kerouac as a mentor and comrade in a literary movement eventually known as the Beat Generation. They shared New England roots and shared the same birthday (March 12; Kerouac born in 1922, Holmes in 1926). They were characters in each other's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0578360136
• ISBN13: 9780578360133
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Limberlost Press
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"