Go (novel)
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Go is the semi-auto-biographical novel by John Clellon Holmes. It is the first novel to depict the Beat Generation. All of the characters are based on the real life friends Holmes used to hang around with in the 1940s and 1950s in Manhattan. The novel is based around Paul Hobbes (Holmes) and the crazy world of drug-fuelled parties, bars, clubs and free love that he and his friends inhabit. The major characters in the novel are all closely based on Holmes' real-life friends: Gene Pasternak is Jack Kerouac, David Stofsky is Allen Ginsberg.
Holmes' character, Hobbes, is torn between joining his friends in their riotous existence and trying to maintain his relatively stable life and marriage to his wife Kathryn.
