Little boy

Resource Information

The work Little boy represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Little boy

Statement of responsibility

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Creator

• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Author

• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Subject

• Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
• Autobiographies
• Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

From the famed publisher and poet of the Beat generation, his literary last will and testament, part autobiography, part summing up, a magical font of literary lore. Little Boy was quite lost. He had no idea who he was or where he had come from . 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. This is the story of one man's extraordinary life, and the madness of the century that witnessed it - a story steeped in the exhilarating energy of the Beats, a magical torrent of language that gleams with Walt Whitman's visionary spirit. Above all, this is the literary last will and testament of the iconic publisher and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti: not only a meditation on his 99 years on the planet, rich in wisdom, emotion, and memories, but an inspiring reflection on what our future might hold

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

811.54

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult