Subterraneans
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: January 2000
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780345271303
First sentence: ONCE I WAS YOUNG and had so much more orientation and could talk with nervous intelligence about everything and with clarity and without as much literary preambling as this; in other words this is the story of an unself-confident man, at the same time of an egomaniac, naturally, facetious won't do-just to start at the beginning and let the truth seep out, that's what I'll do-.