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Off the Road: My Years With Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg
Off the Road My Years With Cassady Kerouac and Ginsberg Author:Carolyn Cassady Off the Road is Carolyn Cassady's story of her life at the center of the Beat generation. In 1948, at the age of twenty-five, she married Neal Cassady, a man who, in her words, "dared to live like those in the books and movies." Less than ten years after their marriage, he had become a living legend, his dauntless, wild spirit immortalized in th... more »e character of Dean Moriarty, the heroic traveler in Jack Kerouac's On the Road.
In this vivid, comical, wild and wise account of two vital decades in the history of American culture, Carolyn Cassady sheds a loving and authentic light on her friends and her husband. Off the Road presents the real life of these men and women, the sheer energy and mania that fashioned one famous generation.« less