Little Boy

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, described by Bob Dylan as 'a brave man and a brave poet.' 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 one-hundred year old writer and artist. 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 A hypnotic tale of a Little Boy's life - and the craziness of the century that witnessed it - from one of the last surviving members of the Beat Generation.

Report

Ferlinghetti has not just survived for a century: He epitomizes the American culture of that century. New York Times Book Review

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ferlinghetti Lawrence
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.04.2020
• EAN: 9780571351046
• ISBN: 978-0-571-35104-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Fiction: general & literary, Fiction: general and literary, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Biographical fiction, Fiction-Related Items, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction