{"title":"John Clellon Holmes","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore the beat generation with John Clellon Holmes, a contemporary of Kerouac and Ginsberg. Discover novels and essays delving into post-war America, existentialism, and the search for meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"horn-book-john-clellon-holmes-9780140122114","title":"The Horn","description":"Set in 1940s New York, this novel centres on the life of Edgar Pool, a legendary tenor saxophonist who once remade jazz, but who is now in decline both musically and personally. Awards received by Holmes, author of novels, essays and poetry, include the Guggenheim Fellowship.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49573177819409,"sku":"GOR001405488","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49628170486033,"sku":"GOR011642814","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0140122117.jpg?v=1750908773"},{"product_id":"go-book-john-clellon-holmes-9780141188393","title":"Go","description":"The novel that launched the beat generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady. Published two months before Kerouac began ON THE ROAD, GO is the first and most accurate chronicle of the private lives the Beats lived before they became public figures. In lucid fictional prose designed to capture the events, emptions and essence of his experience, Holmes describes an individualistic post-World II New York where crime is celebrated, writing is revered, and parties, booze, discussions, drugs and sex punctuate life.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49728377848081,"sku":"NGR9780141188393","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49951249760529,"sku":"GOR011800851","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49967557706001,"sku":"GOR004300341","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50531737043217,"sku":"GOR002008955","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51090483282193,"sku":"GOR004115480","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0141188391.jpg?v=1750737621"},{"product_id":"horn-a-novel-book-john-clellon-holmes-9780938410515","title":"The Horn: a Novel","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49871253504273,"sku":"CIN0938410512G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0938410512.jpg?v=1750884903"},{"product_id":"representative-men-book-john-clellon-holmes-9781557280084","title":"Representative Men","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50382448263441,"sku":"CIN1557280088G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1557280088.jpg?v=1751309087"},{"product_id":"go-a-novel-book-john-clellon-holmes-9780938410607","title":"Go: a Novel","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50664014446865,"sku":"CIN0938410601G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51839503401233,"sku":"CIN0938410601A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0938410601.jpg?v=1751141024"},{"product_id":"horn-book-john-clellon-holmes-9780285638648","title":"The Horn","description":"Edgar Pool is the Horn, the greatest tenor saxophonist of his generation, the man who created bop and who has become a myth for younger musicians. The Horn lives no life but jazz, his nights are spent in the crowded nightclubs of New York where the wistful, throaty sounds of his saxophone speak of the desires and pasts of his audience. After being out-played for the first time by a younger man the Horn sets out to stumble through New York for the last time. As his friends and lovers search for him they remember his life, and try to find the truth of his brilliant and tragic career. The Horn is a brilliant evocation of the world of jazz and a vivid memorial to the musicians who created it.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50793750528273,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50793751183633,"sku":"GOR004797369","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0285638645.jpg?v=1772274976"},{"product_id":"gone-in-october-book-john-clellon-holmes-9780578360133","title":"Gone in October","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003cem\u003eOn the Road \u003c\/em\u003eas a last hurrah.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new edition of \u003cem\u003eGone in October \u003c\/em\u003ecomprises 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51003855896849,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51003858223377,"sku":"NIN9780578360133","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52403210813713,"sku":"NLS9780578360133","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0578360136.jpg?v=1751040521"},{"product_id":"horn-book-john-clellon-holmes-9781258048570","title":"The Horn","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51022096204049,"sku":"NIN9781258048570","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1258048574.jpg?v=1751208203"},{"product_id":"horn-book-john-clellon-holmes-9781258153236","title":"The Horn","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51022133952785,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51022135951633,"sku":"NIN9781258153236","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1258153238.jpg?v=1751050166"},{"product_id":"horn-book-john-clellon-holmes-9781560252061","title":"The Horn","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51829659828497,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51829660025105,"sku":"CIN1560252065VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52436279034129,"sku":"CIN1560252065A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781560252061.jpg?v=1752787278"},{"product_id":"go-book-john-clellon-holmes-9788493701819","title":"Go","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52695456350481,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52695456481553,"sku":"GOR014581232","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9788493701819.jpg?v=1762393655"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-john-clellon-holmes.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}