Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg

Type

Book

Authors

Carolyn Cassady

ISBN 10

014015390X

ISBN 13

9780140153903

Tags

Memoirs, Women, poets, Beat Movement

Description

This is Carolyn Cassady's story of her life at the centre of the beat generation. In 1948, at the age of 25, she married Neal Cassady. Less than ten years after their marriage, he had become a living legend, his wild spirit immortalized in the character of Dean Moriarty, the heroic traveller in Jack Kerouac's "On The Road". Carolyn Cassady reveals how she had to compete for Neal's attention with his friends and lovers. Their marriage at first alienated poet Allen Ginsberg, who wanted Neal to himself. Even after the civil ceremony, Neal continued to see and "test" other women. - from Amzon

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