”A brave man and a brave poet.” Bob Dylan”Utterly extraordinary.” Guardian”A torrent of textual splendor.” Los Angeles TimesFrom growing up as an orphan in 1920s New York, to serving in the Navy at the D-Day landings in Normandy, to a vagabond life drinking in Parisian cafes, to befriending America`s greatest counter-cultural writers, Little Boy has seen it all. This is the story of one man`s extraordinary life - a story steeped in the exhilarating energy of the Beats. It is a novel serving as the literary last will and testament of the iconic publisher and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti: a meditation on his one hundred years on the planet, rich in wisdom, emotion and memories.