Go: A Novel, by John Clellon Holmes
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The novel that introduced the world to the Beat Generation Published 5 years before On the Road, this candid and perceptive roman à clef chronicles the adventures of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Neal Cassady before they became literary icons. In dive bars and all-night diners, cabs racing across Manhattan and squalid apartments sticky with “tea” smoke, these would-be artists pursue the ecstatic experiences that shape their work and satisfy their restless desire to live beyond the limits of convention. At the heart of Go is Paul Hobbes, the alter ego of John Clellon Holmes. An aspiring novelist who shares the same creative interests as his friends, Paul frequently participates in their reckless, self-indulgent behavior. Yet his innate solemnness makes him an outsider, as does his commitment to his marriage. As Paul seeks to strike the right balance between experimentation and orthodoxy, freedom and obligation, he casts a discerning eye on his peers. The result is a thrilling and indispensible portrait of the Beat movement before it took America by storm.
Go: A Novel, by John Clellon Holmes- Amazon Sales Rank: #487010 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-10-20
- Released on: 2015-10-20
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About the Author John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988) was an essayist, poet, and novelist; and was a "sometime member" of the Beat Generation. He published GO in 1952; The Horn, a novel about jazz, would follow in 1958, and Get Home Free, depicting the later fate of two characters from Go, would appear in 1964.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful. The first Beat novel rediscovered By Jeffrey Ellis "Go," generally acknoweldged as the first of the Beat Generation novels, was Holmes' first novel and it shows many of the typical flaws of the first major work of a talented artist. The tone is incosistent, the plot tends to wander, and the first half the book has a tendency to drag. That said, "Go" is still a worthwhile novel. Much as his friend Jack Kerouac would later do, Holmes essentially records his life as an aspiring writer living on the fringes of the postwar New York underground. Under various aliases, such familiar characters as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Neal Cassady wander through the book. In its loose, episodic fashion, "Go" tells the story of a young writer who, while desperately trying to complete his first novel, watches his friends and wife dance through a decadent society, fueled by their own desire to say something original in a world that seems to fear and despise anything less than the purely conventional. Its a familiar plot but Holmes truly manages to capture both the excitement and the fear that goes with being both young and undiscovered. This a book that will be easily understood by anyone who has ever been convinced that they, for whatever reason, have been blessed with the ability to see both the beauties and the horrors of modern life that the rest of the world seems to safely ignore. As well, the book serves as a sad lament for both the promise and the ultimate fate of the original members of the Beat Generation. Though Holmes couldn't have realized it at the time, some of the book's most powerful scenes comes from having the knowledge of the ignominous fates that await characters like Gene Pasternak (Jack Kerouac) and Hart Kennedy (Neal Cassady) once they find the success that they are so desperately seeking. Even if uneven, it makes for an exhilirating read that, in the wonderful final chapter, truly does leave the reader feeling as if he has -- for a moment -- been transported back to the New York of the 1950s, when it truly seemed that these fatally flawed geniuses held the future and the salvation of American literature in their hands.Though he is usually credited with both coining the much maligned term "Beat Generation" as well as writing "Go," the first truly Beat novel, John Clellon Holmes has long been overshadowed by more experimental contemporaries like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. As Holmes himself acknowledged in personal interviews and this autobiographical novel, he was always on the fringe of the main Beat group -- i.e., a somewhat conservative, responsible intellectual trying to make a name for himself amongst a group that prided itself on being neither conservative nor responsible. Holmes is one of the few important Beat figures to never figure importantly into any of Kerouac's novels and his writing style was far more conventional than those of the better known Beats. As a result, "Go" has too often been unjustly ignored by modern-day adherents to the Beat Generation. This is unfair because "Go," though certainly imperfect, is still a valuable look at these future mythological figures before they become legends and is an entertaining work on its own.
34 of 38 people found the following review helpful. Beat, but not By MyComa Holmes is generally considered to be a Beat novelist, but that label creates unfair expectations for those who have not read his work. In truth, Holmes' writing is a narrow bridge between writer's of the 30's and early 40's and the Beats. His style is reminiscent of Thomas Wolfe to an extreme--something Kerouac was guilty of in 'The Town and the City.' The problem with this novel is that Holmes wants so badly to chronicle the activities and attitudes of the Beats, but he can't pull it off stylistically. Kerouac's spontaneous prose was better suited for the subject matter and themes. This is why Kerouac, not Holmes, is generally considered the King of the Beats. Holmes' prose is dense with word illustrations and bland dialogue. Compare this with Kerouac's economy of words and beat-laiden dialogue, and you'll see why Kerouac's chronicles of the Beat Generation more fully capture the essence and spirit of the movement. If you truly enjoy Thomas Wolfe, you'll like Holmes. But if you're thinking 'Go' is anything like 'On the Road,' think again.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful. When are they going to make a movie of Go? By Kerouac fan An Extremely Important Book In The Beat CanonWe all know that Jack Kerouac was a more important writer than J C Holmes. More poetic, more rhythmic, more original, more driven by his passion, but was he more aware of the situation, and the relationships, and insightful? That's what I'm left wondering after returning to Holmes' book Go after I put it down 30 years ago, (I'm reading the 1959 British version The Beat Boys). I didn't finish it the first time, probably got less than a quarter of the way through it because it didn't seem to contain Kerouac's dream I found it too conventional, literate, dense with detail, dry?Now having read all of the Kerouac canon and having searched volumes' of letters of such for further knowledge of The Beat Generation I happen back on Go and having a heavy bout of flu have the time to settle back by the fire with cat on lap and re-discover it - and by God it's all here, everything I ever wanted to know about the early days. You know how you wish you could have a time machine and travel back to be at a beat party in, say, 1949 and see Jack, and Neal, Luanne and Allen as they really were through the eyes of (yourself or) someone else - well now you can, it's incredible!And not written in retrospect by someone putting the record straight or playing to an audience, satisfying a fandom, but Holmes is writing about them before he even knew that they would ever become famous (why?). Why would you do that? They must have been an extraordinary group of people or just I suppose living life in a wild way that didn't go on in the war years. Do you write books about your groups of friends? Documenting their every move? Yet Holmes does, and it's lucky for us he did. And the insight he shows on what those guys were like! Wow! and not just a couple of paragraphs or a soundbite that you might get from a friend talking on a video documentary but page after page of observing their lives. Point made.This book is such a gift to Beat fans. As I say I attempted reading it about 30 years ago after reading Kerouac's euphoric hypnotic first person accounts of the Beatosphere and found 'Go' formal/dry/dense/ and not knowing the characters, gave up a quarter way through.If I say that this book is as good a book as On the Road you know I'm not spoofing, because I'm one of Jack's biggest, long standing, fans and I wouldn't say such a thing lightly. The difference being, probably, that whereas OTR appeals to everybody with no background knowledge of the beat scene of the late fourties with Go a little prior knowledge of that scene and it's characters helps.If Kerouac is the poet. Holmes is the realist. He lives with them, travels with them, enters into their 'experiences', but never judges, lets you draw your own conclusions. In fact it's questionable, was John a Beat? I think he'd say he was, he certainly loved them and was one of Jack's best friends.With the film (American: movie) of On the Road finally being released to cinemas (American: theatres) near you the biographies of the Beats will abound, but Go which came out before any of the beat books will probably in the end prove to be the best biography to get. The others will almost certainly be judgemental, the biographers will be running their moral slide rules across the Beats, like an investigator entering a monastery and saying "this is all very well but these men are shirking their responsibility to support a woman and procreate". The said investigator not questioning his morals that society these days helps him support the woman to procreate with tax breaks and such and the children he procreates will be put through a school system which he himself hated, a work system which he himself hated and maybe made to inflict suffering on others by joining the armed forces.This is a very long book.I started out reading it to gain insight into Kerouac and Cassady and ended getting insight into Holmes and even myself. Outside of the Beats there are some marvellous passages and character observations. Take this page for instance -Google: "Amazon"Then: "Go by John Clellon Holmes"Then: "Click to Look Inside" the book and search for the words:"cool, laughing couples"- how's that for wandering through a lonely city?orTake for, instance, this short passage:After a nights heavy party, the host Hobbes (Clellon Holmes) having seen Kerouac, Cassady and attendant girlfriends and others out, goes to the bathroom: "Hobbes was dizzy and nauseated from the beer and the marijuana and, leaving Dinah to arrange the spare blankets, he went into the bathroom to make himself vomit as was his habit whenever he was too drunk or sick to sleep. "While leaning over the toilet getting up his nerve, he thought that the moment before making yourself throw up must be very like the instant before suicide. You are almost content to bear the sickening headache and the torment in your stomach rather than go through that moment. But the prospect of relief made you fool-hardy and you jammed your finger down your throat." Do you get many passages in Kerouac as self-realising and insightful as that?Was a time when I though that I'd discovered/read the whole Beat oeuvre: three quarters of Jack's books, Junky and Naked Lunch, Howl. That was about the lot I thought. Now I include Holmes' Go which I think can stand head and shoulders high with that group. Go, buy it!It's time to take Go from the back of the bookcase, dust the cobwebs off of it, and put it up front between On the Road and Junky where it belongs. When's the film of Go being made?But nothing I've told you so far prepares you for Part 2 Chapter 8 when Luanne and Neal fight this is some kind of crescendo but we're nowhere near the end of the book yet. It's so man/woman as they really are. So much deeper into male/female relationships than anything Kerouac attempted (or could accomplish) in his books. (From what I've read of him anyway.) This is probably because Holmes being a long-time married man could empathise with male/female entwinement better than Jack who was always on the retreat from it.I've got to Page 147 (three quarters of the way through) and I'm feeling emotionally drained. I've been to a beatnik party (O.K. a Beat party) with Jack Kerouac, John Clellon Holmes, Allen Ginsberg, Holmes' wife, Neal Cassady, Luanne Henderson, (all under their stage names, or pseudonyms to be precise), find out what their pseudonyms in the book are by Googling:>GO by John Clellon Holmes (Scribner's, 1952) Character name:beatbookcovers Go: A Novel, by John Clellon Holmes
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