Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Kerouac's seminal 'On the Road', Carolyn Cassady's 'Off the Road' tells the intimate story of two of the most famous, and yet most 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 ...

Presents chronologically works such as Paterson , selections from White Shroud , Cosmopolitan Greetings , and including the poems Howl and Kaddish as well as songs, and notes by Ginsberg. This volume brings together the personal verse of an American poet.

Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs had all seen the inside of mental hospitals and prisons by the age of 30. This book charts the transformation of these experiences into a literary movement that spread across the globe in the decade and a half that followed World War II.

Duluoz grows up in a sleepy Massachusetts town, but his football talents take him on a scholarship to Columbia University. World War II intervenes and he serves in the Navy before returning to a life of writing, drugs and sex in the underground "beat" movement. From the author of "On the Road".