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    Little Boy: A Novel
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    Little Boy: A Novel

    Written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    Narrated by Peter Coyote

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    About this audiobook

    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 listen to.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 19, 2019
    ISBN9781984847294
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    Little Boy: A Novel
    Author

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti is an acclaimed poet, activist, anarchist philosopher, and editor. He is one of the founders of City Lights, the legendary bookstore and publishing house in San Francisco, which published the early works of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and many other poets from the Beat generation. Ferlinghetti has authored more than thirty books, including his most acclaimed work of poetry, A Coney Island of the Mind, which has sold more than 1 million copies and has been translated into nine languages. He lives in San Francisco, California.

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