Nothing More To Declare

Holmes, John Clellon

Verlag: Andre Deutsch, London, 1968

Beschreibung

A memoir by John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988), who met Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady & others during the late 1940s & was among the earliest to profile them as fictional characters in his novel GO (1952). Although intimately associated with the Beat Generation, Holmes was more of a confidant-observer, especially of Kerouac, than a bona-fide Beat himself in his life & writing styles. In this later work, he focuses on biographical-critical portraits of Ginsberg, Kerouac & two much-less well known Beat figures, Jay Landesman & Gershon Legman. Holmes also muses on a variety of topics including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy & the personality of his alleged killer, Lee Harvey Oswald. Full of clear insight & eyewitness anecdotes with the benefit of some distance & hindsight by a very penetrating writer. The first UK edition, published the year following the first American edition of 1967, hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. The very colorful front cover & spine graphics are most exemplary of the British mod-psychedelic sixties, much bolder than the American version. A classic Holmes rarity of great benefit & interest to the collector-scholar of the Beat Generation. 5½" - 8¾". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 276894

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Nothing More To Declare

Verlag: Andre Deutsch, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1968

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: First edition.

Art des Buches: book