Little Boy

A hypnotic tale of a Little Boy's life - and the craziness of the century that witnessed it - from Lawrence Ferlinghetti, one of the last surviving members of the Beat Generation.

Informationen zum Autor Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in New York in 1919. He was the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers in San Francisco, where he championed many of the century's greatest authors, especially of the Beat Generation. He was arrested on obscenity charges for publishing Allen Ginsberg's Howl . Ferlinghetti has written over forty poetry collections, including the bestselling A Coney Island of the Mind , and has received a National Book Critics Circle lifetime achievement award. His memoir Little Boy was published in 2019. He died in February 2021. Klappentext Eminent Beat Generation figure Lawrence Ferlinghetti reflects on his experiences across the twentieth century, through the Second World War and the emergent counterculture. A wise meditation from the ninety-nine year old poet and publisher. Vorwort A hypnotic tale of a Little Boy's life - and the craziness of the century that witnessed it - from Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a legend of the Beat Generation. Zusammenfassung Grown Boy came into his own voice and let loose his word-horde pent-up within him. From growing up as an orphan in 1920s New York, to serving in the Navy at the D-Day landings in Normandy, to a vagabond life drinking in Parisian cafes, to befriending America's greatest counter-cultural writers, Little Boy has seen it all.

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A hypnotic tale of a Little Boy's life - and the craziness of the century that witnessed it - from Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a legend of the Beat Generation.

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in New York in 1919. He was the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers in San Francisco, where he championed many of the century's greatest authors, especially of the Beat Generation. He was arrested on obscenity charges for publishing Allen Ginsberg's Howl. Ferlinghetti has written over forty poetry collections, including the bestselling A Coney Island of the Mind, and has received a National Book Critics Circle lifetime achievement award. His memoir Little Boy was published in 2019. He died in February 2021.

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Eminent Beat Generation figure Lawrence Ferlinghetti reflects on his experiences across the twentieth century, through the Second World War and the emergent counterculture. A wise meditation from the ninety-nine year old poet and publisher.

Résumé
Grown Boy came into his own voice and let loose his word-horde pent-up within him. From growing up as an orphan in 1920s New York, to serving in the Navy at the D-Day landings in Normandy, to a vagabond life drinking in Parisian cafes, to befriending America's greatest counter-cultural writers, Little Boy has seen it all.