Description: From the famed publisher and poet author of the million - copy - selling collection A Coney Island of the Mind his literary last will and testament - - part autobiography part summing up part Beat - inflected torrent of language and feeling and all magical." A volcanic explosion of personal memories political rants social commentary environmental jeremiads and cultural analysis all tangled together in one breathless sentence that would make James Joyce proud " Ron Charles The Washington Post In this unapologetically unclassifiable work Lawrence Ferlinghetti lets loose an exhilarating rush of language to craft what might be termed a closing statement about his highly significant and productive 99 years on this planet. The " Little Boy" of the title is Ferlinghetti himself as a child shuffled from his overburdened mother to his French aunt to foster childhood with a rich Bronxville family. Service in World War Two (including the D - Day landing) graduate work and a scholar gypsy's vagabond life in Paris followed. These biographical reminiscences are interweaved with Allen Ginsberg - esque high energy bursts of raw emotion rumination reflection reminiscence and prognostication on what we may face as a species on Planet Earth in the future. Little Boy is a magical font of literary lore with allusions galore a final repository of hard - earned and durable wisdom a compositional high wire act without a net (or all that much punctuation) and just a gas and an inspiration to read.
Title: Little Boy A Novel
Barcode: 9780525565956
Publication Date: 4/15/2020