num_pages: 352
description: 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.
language: English
title: Go
titlecomplete: Go
genres: Classics, New York, Fiction, The United States Of America, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Unfinished, American, Americana
ratings_count: 1757
places: New York City, New York
publisher: Penguin Modern Classics