Neal Cassady The Fast Life Of A Beat Hero

Author : Graham Vickers
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857121375
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero written by Graham Vickers and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neal Cassady achieved mythical status when Jack Kerouac turned him into Dean Moriarty, the hero of On The Road. In this major biography David Sandison and Graham Vickers trace the life of the wild man from Denver who galvanised Kerouac and the Beat Generation not by artistic endeavour but by his extravagant life-affirming behaviour and epic feats of cross-country driving. Dead before his forty-second birthday, Cassady was surrounded by legends and tall stories quite literally from birth. This superbly-researched biography at last strips away the mythology to reveal truths so weird and improbable that you wonder why embellishment was ever thought necessary in the first place.

Author : David Sanderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neal Cassady written by David Sanderson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Neal Cassady
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 9780872860056
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Third written by Neal Cassady and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1971-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographical writing by the "hero" of Jack Kerouac's On the road.

Author : Carolyn Cassady
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468305719
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Off the Road written by Carolyn Cassady and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir by the woman at the center of the Beat movement is “a great book as well as a wonderful autobiography” (The Washington Post Book World). Written by the woman who loved them all—as wife of Cassady, lover of Kerouac, and friend of Ginsberg—this riveting and intimate memoir spans one of the most vital eras in twentieth-century literature and culture, including the explosive successes of Kerouac’s On the Road and Ginsberg’s Howl, the flowering of the Beat movement, and the social revolution of the 1960s. Artist, writer, and designer Carolyn Cassady reveals a side of Neal Cassady rarely seen—that of husband and father, a man who craved respectability, yet could not resist the thrills of a wilder, and ultimately more destructive, lifestyle. “To the familiar history of the Beat generation, Carolyn Cassady adds a proprietary chapter marked with newness, self-exposure, love and poignancy.” —Publishers Weekly “Rich with gossip, historically significant photographs, intimate memories, [and] unpublished letters.” —The New York Times “A poignant recollection—truthful, coarse, and inviting—teeming with the spirit of the men who inspired and symbolized the dreams of a generation.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Gerald Nicosia
Publisher : Cleis Press
ISBN 13 : 1573449555
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One and Only written by Gerald Nicosia and published by Cleis Press. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how Lu Anne Henderson fostered the friendship between the writer Jack Kerouac and her husband Neal Cassady, and became one of the inspirations for Kerouac's most famous work, "On the Road."

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Picador USA
ISBN 13 : 1250321700
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test written by Tom Wolfe and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tom Wolfe's seminal portrait of Ken Kesey, one of the most magnetic figures of the counterculture movement of the 1960s, and his band of Merry Pranksters"--

Author : Neal Cassady
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913606336
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Joan Anderson Letter written by Neal Cassady and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A letter from Neal Cassady to his best friend and travelling companion Jack (On the Road) Kerouac.Kerouac received the letter from Cassady in 1950 and later told the Paris Review that it had inspired 'On theRoad' along with his new literary style; referring to it as 'the greatest piece of writing I ever saw'. The energy ofCassady's fast-paced, free-flowing, confessional prose pulsates through the 15,000 word missive; bringinggloriously to life the personality of one of the most high profile figures in literary, and Beat movement, history.This incredibly illusive artefact, which describes in explicit detail his relationship with Joan Anderson ('aperfect beauty of loveliness that I forgot everything else'), had been missing for 60 years when it was discovered in an attic in Oakland, USA, in 2014. Legal machinations over its ownership ensued and it has not been published in its entirety...until now.This much-anticipated letter is now reproduced in full, with an introduction by Beat scholar ProfessorA. Robert Lee. This jewel of Beat history also includes a range of photographs of the writers and a raresepia drawing of Neal by his former wife, writer and artist Carolyn Cassady.

Author : Edward Cletus Sellner
Publisher : Lethe Press
ISBN 13 : 1590213149
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Double written by Edward Cletus Sellner and published by Lethe Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon theology, Jungian psychology, literature, and the history of Christian spirituality, this book shows how same-sex desire can be reflected in those close intimacy between gay men.

Author : Robert Niemi
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593764618
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate, Illustrated Beats Chronology written by Robert Niemi and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that less than two weeks after Jack Kerouac reported to the Newport, RI U.S. Naval Training Station (the same month that the German 6th Army was surrendering at Stalingrad), he was discharged, diagnosed with a “Constitutional Psychopathic State, Schizoid Personality”? That just a few months later, William Burroughs moved from Chicago to New York, where he took a small apartment at 69 Bedford Street and began a heroin addiction that was to last until 1956? That meanwhile, Gregory Corso, thirteen and homeless, was being arrested for petty larceny, while Hubert Selby, Jr., fifteen, joined the Merchant Marines? And that the very same year, Allen Ginsberg, a new graduate from Eastside High School in Patterson, New Jersey, began his first semester at Columbia University, where he first made the acquaintance of Herbert Gold and Jack Kerouac? Packed with month-by-month and week-by-week anecdotes, The Ultimate, Illustrated Beats Chronology is a meticulous timeline detailing the life events and literary accomplishments of the writers who became known as the Beat Generation. Covering an entire century and then some, this beautifully illustrated volume is certain to be an invaluable resource for anyone curious about the Beat Generation.

Author : Neal Cassady
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101177330
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Letters, 1944-1967 written by Neal Cassady and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-01-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dave Moore's work on this collection is simply awesome.... It should become and remain the definitive reference book for Beat scholars forever.” —Carolyn Cassady Neal Cassady is best remembered today as Jack Kerouac’s muse and the basis for the character “Dean Moriarty” in Kerouac’s classic On The Road, and as one of Ken Kesey’s merriest of Merry Pranksters, the driver of the psychedelic bus “Further,” immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. This collection brings together more than two hundred letters to Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, and other Beat generation luminaries, as well as correspondence between Neal and his wife, Carolyn. These amazing letters cover Cassady’s life between the ages of 18 and 41 and finish just months before his death in February 1968. Brilliantly edited by Dave Moore, this unique collection presents the “Soul of the Beat Generation” in his own words—sometimes touching and tender, sometimes bawdy and hilarious. Here is the real Neal Cassady—raw and uncut.