Carolyn Cassady, Author William Morrow & Company $22.95 (436p) ISBN 978-0-688-08891-0
In flesh, and as portrayed in Jack Kerouac's novels On the Road (as Dean Moriarty) and Big Sur (as Cody Pomeroy), Neal Cassady embodied the zeitgeist of his generation, among whom was the author, his wife of 15 chaotic years. He was 22, three years...
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Carolyn Cassady, Author Penguin Books $16 (464p) ISBN 978-0-14-015390-3
Infidelity, drugs, road trips and encounters with legendary Beats characterized the author's 15-year marriage to Neal Cassady, during which she had an affair with Jack Kerouac and shared Neal with Allen Ginsberg. ``To the familiar history of the...
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Richard Peabody, Editor, Joyce Johnson, Author, Carolyn Cassady, Author Serpent's Tail $13.99 (275p) ISBN 978-1-85242-431-2
Too many of these 125 pieces of verse, memoir and fiction seem to depend on some connection to the beat icons--a crew whose youth has withered in far too many books. Once again, we get the con man Neal Cassady (in a memoir by Carolyn Cassady) and we
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