AMERICA'S TEEN-AGE JUNGLE AND A SEARING
STORY OF YOUTH IN SEARCH OF 'KICKS'
ACE BOOKS (UK) H262
LONDON, UK
2ND PRINTING NOVEMBER 1959
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE USA UNDER THE TITLE "GO"
Clellon Holmes is famous as the inventor of the Beat Generation, and The Beat Boys (originally entitled Go) is the book in which he introduced the phrase. It is a novel of youth in search of 'kicks'. Against a background of fast-drinking, drug addiction, wild jazz and all-night parties, the young people of today who make up the Beat Generation carry on their desperate search for a meaning to their lives - a search for identity, experience and love. The Beats may be found pursuing their restless quest in every big American city. Here is the world of the Beat Generation - a world of dingy backstairs, be-bop joints, night-long wanderings, meetings on street corners, hitch-hiking, and 'hip' bars.
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