Full name: Off the Road: My Years With Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg

Author: Carolyn Cassady Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780140153903 014015390X

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. Similar books: The First Third by Neal Cassady When I Was Cool by Sam Kashner Minor Characters by Joyce Johnson How I Became Hettie Jones by Hettie Jones Memoirs of a Beatnik by Diane DiPrima Subterranean Kerouac by Ellis Amburn My Life So Far by Jane Fonda Hidden Lives by Margaret Forster Little Girl Lost by Drew Barrymore Naked Angels by John Tytell After All by Mary Tyler Moore Slim by Slim Keith Shattered Love by Richard Chamberlain My Life as Me by Barry Humphries Missing Men A Memoir by Joyce Johnson