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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.… (more)
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by:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
2019
Doubleday
4.0 / 5.0
This book was written and published when Ferlinghetti was 99 years old. His writing style, stream of consciousness, either endears him to you, or turns you off. I love his use of this style, and is a perfect representation of him as a person;
This is a fast and intense book. Autobiographical. Beat Rants. Philosophical. I enjoyed this quick one. What an amazing mind.
Happy 100 years on the blue and green orb to an elder statesman of American letters!
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