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"Ferlinghetti has not just survived for a century He epitomizes the American culture of that century. . .The story of Little Boy echo[es] a great national question. . .Who, little boys and girls, juvenile yet old, do we think we are?"
—Robert Pinsky, The New York Times Book Review
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.
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.
Download PDF Little Boy A Novel Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9780385544788 Books
"The little boy is now a 100 year old lad of great, somehow underappreciated stature. LF's book is called a novel when it is, finally, a milestone memoir/BEAT Testament/Document. Has anyone 100 years old, in a field that eats its young, lived to make anything its equal? Unless Michael McClure or Anne Waldman hit the C Mark with something as lucid and valuable, this is the last book of its kind. Buy it. Read it twice."
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Little Boy A Novel Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9780385544788 Books Reviews
- I purchased this book on Audible. Peter Coyote read this beautifully. Listening to Peter Coyote read Ferlinghetti is sheer pleasure! Ferlinghetti is sharp and witty and insightful. Fortunately I am old enough to have lived through much of what he describes and have read nearly all the books he mentiones. But Ferlinghetti doesn't just live in the past. No! He lives in the present and the future as well all at once. He tackles mortality and the wonders of the Cosmos. He deals with the diminishing humanity caused by technology. He writes about how we are destroying the earth's environment by selfishness and over population. Most of all, Ferlinghetti dwells in the magic of his poetry. This book is ,quite frankly, a masterpiece!
- The little boy is now a 100 year old lad of great, somehow underappreciated stature. LF's book is called a novel when it is, finally, a milestone memoir/BEAT Testament/Document. Has anyone 100 years old, in a field that eats its young, lived to make anything its equal? Unless Michael McClure or Anne Waldman hit the C Mark with something as lucid and valuable, this is the last book of its kind. Buy it. Read it twice.
- Moving, endearing, and an easy read
- The rush of language is exhilarating. The observations of the present, past and of the future are prescient. The ending is wistful and eloquent. A nice exclamation point on a grand literary career.
- This is not just a book; it is magic. The poet weaves his words to ebb and flow like a wondrous river taking us on the journey of our lives. I will re-read this tale over and over as there is too much to experience, to savor, just once.
- My first Ferlinghetti--what a wild roller-coaster ride! Couldn't put it down. I'm not a poetry fan, but this stream of consciousness style provided a fascinating insight into a century of living with eyes wide open.
- Perhaps the last words from one of the Kings of the Beats. Terrific summing up of a great and prolific life. The words flow once it departs from biographical narratives.
- Just finished Ferlenghetti's recently published autobio Little Boy. He has so captured the mental experience of persons who have lived to an old age with mind intact, now enduring inexplicable repetitive dreams of being lost and alone in unfamiliar surroundings, storing up a lifetime of memories and themes that repeatedly return to mind in new circumstances, trying to find meaning where there may be none or perhaps more than enough, expressing all this and more his experience of aging has in common with all very old men in the same language that made his poetry unique.
