Neal and Carolyn bought a ranch house in Los Gatos, creating for house-guests Kerouac and Ginsberg a feeling of home and security-never mind that Neal, in order to cover for his own affairs, encouraged his wife to start one with sweet, alcoholic Kerouac. There, Neal thrived as he got a job with the Southern Pacific railroad and spent his spare time with his kids (two girls and a boy). Pregnant and in love, Carolyn learned to drop her 50's moral standards and started a life with Neal in California. Things got trickier when young Allen Ginsberg appeared on the scene and Carolyn found the young poet, Neal, and his soon-to-be-ex-bride in bed together.

He walked into Carolyn's life with a child bride on his arm, but despite Carolyn's upper-middle-class reserve he managed to win her heart and a place in her bed. of Denver he was a big blond kid from a broken Denver family who, at 20, was passing himself off as a budding writer and Columbia Univ. Bennington-educated Carolyn met Neal in Denver just after WW II. Here, first-time author Carolyn Cassady offers a sincere if stilted record of her 20-year love affair/marriage with that wild American original. 'Carolyn Cassady: On and Off the Road.' Moody Street Irregulars: A Jack Kerouac Magazine 24-26 (1991), 13-18.Neal Cassady, immortalized as a kind of amphetamine cowboy archetype in Jack Kerouac's On the Road, was, not surprisingly, a terror around his suburban ranch house. Love Always, Carolyn, 2011 documentary film on Carolyn, covering similar subject material.1990, USA, William Morrow, 436 pp, hardcover, ISBN 1-0.1990, UK, Black Spring Press, 436 pp, hardcover, ISBN 0-94.Off the Road begins in the initial stages of Kerouac and Neal Cassady's friendship, when Kerouac was a struggling author trying to publish his first novel (1950's The Town and the City), and documents important moments in the beat movement such as the success of On the Road and Allen Ginsberg's ' Howl.' As Neal's wife and Kerouac's intermittent lover, Carolyn Cassady was well situated to record the inception of the Beat Generation and its influence on American culture. Off the Road recounts the history of Carolyn Cassady, wife of Jack Kerouac's traveling companion and On the Road 's hero Neal Cassady.

Originally published in 1990 as Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg, it was republished by London's Black Spring Press, coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Off the Road: Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg is an autobiographical book by Carolyn Cassady.

Off the Road by Carolyn Cassady