Off the road – Twenty years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg

“Carolyn Cassady’s account of life off the road with her husband, Neal Cassady, her lover Jack Kerouac and the lover of both, Allen Ginsberg, exerts a powerful fascination. Kerouac, the unwitting biographer of the Beat generation, and Ginsberg its most fervent activist, were united in their love for Neal, whom they acknowledged as their muse.

Monster, madman, saint and delinquent, Cassady lived what others could only dream. Kerouac’s immortalisation of him as the hero of On the Road, Dean Moriarty, launched a new era in literature.”