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This fascinating and in-depth biography of Neal Cassady takes a look at the man who achieved immortality as Dean Moriarty, the central character in Jack Kerouac's On the Road. A charismatic, funny, articulate, and formidably intelligent man, Cassady was also a compulsive womanizer who lived life on the edge. His naturalistic, conversational writing style inspired Kerouac, who lifted a number of passages verbatim and uncredited from Cassady's letters for significant episodes in On the Road. Drawing on a wealth of new research and with full cooperation from central figures in

Beats (Persons) --- Cassady, Neal. --- United States --- Beat generation --- Beatniks --- Persons --- Bohemianism

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"Off the road" tells the intimate story of two of the most famous, and yet enigmatic, figures in modern literature - Jack Kerouac ans his friend, travelling companion and hero, Neal Cassady. Written by the woman who loved them both - as wife of Cassady, 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 the Beat movement.

BEAT GENERATION --- KEROUAC (JACK), 1922-1969 --- GINSBERG (ALLEN), 1926 --- -CASSADY (NEAL), 1926-1968 --- ETATS-UNIS