The Horn

Literature & Fiction

John Clellon Holmes

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Go (Penguin Modern Classics)

Penguin??Books

John Clellon Holmes reflects on the history of jazz in this classic novel. Edgar Pool is "The Horn," the hero, and the man who helps change the face of American music. He becomes the legend whose triumphant and tragic career is reconstructed through the memories of his friends and lovers.

Horn

Souvenir

On the July 4th weekend of 1948, John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988) met Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) in New York City for the first time, and the two became lifelong friends. As a young, ambitious novelist, Holmes knew Kerouac as a mentor and comrade in a literary movement eventually known as the Beat Generation. They shared New England roots and shared the same birthday (March 12; Kerouac born in 1922, Holmes in 1926). They were characters in each other's novels, and they fed each other encouragement over the years through letters and get-togethers at Holmes's home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, until Kerouac's untimely death at age 47, on October 21,1969.\nIn four essays first published under one cover by Limberlost Press in 1985, Holmes writes about the influence of their common New England roots ("Rocks in Our Beds"), about his genuine friendship with Kerouac ("The Great Rememberer"), about going to Kerouac's funeral with poets Allen Ginsberg and Gergory Corso ("Gone in October"), and about atttending the 1982 Naropa Institute 25th anniversary celebration of the 1957 publication of On the Road as a last hurrah.\nThis new edition of Gone in October comprises a deeply heart-felt remebrance of literary friendship and personal loss, reprinted with permission of the Estate of John Clellon Holmes in honor of the Jack Kerouac centennial in 2022.

Gone in October: Last Reflections on Jack Kerouac

Literary

Limberlost Press

Creative Arts Book Company

John Clellon Holmes reflects on the history of jazz in this classic novel. Edgar Pool is "The Horn," the hero, and the man who helps change the face of American music. He becomes the legend whose triumphant and tragic career is reconstructed through the memories of his friends and lovers.

Thunder's Mouth Press

The Horn: A Novel

Thunder's Mouth Pr

Returning to their respective homes in Connecticut and Louisianna, Dan Verger and May Delano find their perspectives on their relationship changed by the experience

Get Home Free

Generally acknowledged to be the first Beat novel, go was originally published in 1952, five years before Kerouac's On the Road. "John Clellon Holmes became the Beat Generation's chief chronicler."--Newsweek.

Go: A Novel (Classic Reprint)

Go: A novel ([Classic reprint series])

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