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

by Carolyn Cassady

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

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 wife of Cassady, sometime 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 that Beat Movement.

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An Intriguing New Perspective on the Heroes of the Beat Generation

Engaging from the start, Carolyn Cassady's work is a poignant account of the adventurous men she loved and the women that they left behind. Though autobiographical and somewhat biographical, it reads like fiction. The content is irresistible, prompting readers to fervently turn pages.
Fans of Kerouac’s On the Road will enjoy seeking similarities in the parallel plot structures, alluded to by the novels’ parallel titles. Though Kerouac’s account and the beginning of Cassady’s work are essentially the same as far as plot is concerned, Cassady’s sheds light on the previously unexplored mentalities of those who were, at times, excluded by the famous Beatniks. Hers is a new and intensely valuable perspective, which seems to complement (as well as contrast) Kerouac’s own.
Her novel is a celebration of the lives of these figures and dwells only fleetingly on their deaths. At the heart of their lives is an emphasis on spiritual connections and the relationships between human beings.
Cassady’s work is a thought-provoking specimen that’s worth the reading of its relatively hefty total of 439 pages.

Review by C. Morgan on 15:34, 24 Mar 2009

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