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Carolyn Cassady - Off The Road (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
Subtitled : Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac & 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 1960's 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.
Details
- Format : Thicker 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Very Good
- Category : Non-Fiction - Autobiography & Biography
- Published : 1990 (This Revised Edition 2007 - Black Spring Press)
- ISBN : 9780948238376
- SKU : B003237
- PPC : SP400gm
- RRP : £9.95
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"Poor yourself a herbal tea, sit down and get transported back in time to when the Beats changed American culture for good. Here is the real story of what happened, and much of it is heartbreaking, poignant and necessary reading for men in general. Carolyn Cassady writes about the era from the inside, having lived with and loved these men. Unlike them, she made it through and only recently died. Delightful lady who writes like a dream, evocative, emotional, often not easy to read because the behaviour she put up with would test the patience nay sanity of a saint."
"It's a fascinating account into the lives of the main cast of characters associated with the Beat Generation. The level of intimate detail is truly compelling and captivating and in my honest opinion provides the real truth to what the Beat Generation was about. Carolyn Cassady's memoir is truly remarkable. I could not put this book down." - Google Reviews.
"Intensely Readable." - Peter Ackroyd.
" . . . one hell of a story." - Jay Landesman, Sunday Times.
The Author
Carolyn Cassady (April 28, 1923 - September 20, 2013) was an American writer and associated with the Beat Generation through her marriage to Neal Cassady and her friendships with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and other prominent Beat figures. She became a frequent character in the works of Jack Kerouac.