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Can I read Little Boy on EtoBox?
Little Boy by Ferlinghetti, Lawrence is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Little Boy about?
The novel, titled "Little Boy," fuses elements of autobiography, literary criticism, poetry and philosophy, in a headlong, often stream-of-consciousness style. "It's not a memoir, it's an imaginary me," Mr. Ferlinghetti said in a phone interview. "It's an experimental novel, let's put it that way." -- 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.
Who reads Little Boy?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, Limited
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780571351022
- Category
- children's
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Children'S, Biography
- Rating
- 4.01 / 5 (215 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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