Twenty years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg
Off the Road tells the intimate story of two
of the most famous, and yet enigmatic, figures in modern literature -
Jack Kerouac and his friend, travelling companion and hero, Neal
Cassady. Written by the woman who loved them both - as wife of Cassady,
lover of Kerouac - it is the remarkable record of marriage to the man
whose exploits, as Dean Moriarty in On the Road, caught the imagination of a generation and fired the Beat movement.
Carolyn
Cassady's book spans one of the most vital areas in twentieth-century
literature and culture. It begins in the early days of Kerouac and
Cassady's friendship, when the former was a struggling author trying to
make his way with his first novel, and goes on to the explosive success
of On the Road and Ginsberg's Howl,
the flowering of the 'Beat generation', and the social revolution of
the 1960s which saw Kerouac and Cassady - by then famed as driver of Ken
Kesey's legendary Merry Pranksters 'bus' taken up as founding fathers
of the emerging worldwide hippy movement.
Off The Road - Carolyn Cassady
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