Off the Road
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Off the Road: Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg is a biographical memorial written by Carolyn 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 seminal On the Road. Off the Road recounts the history of Carolyn Cassady, wife of Jack Kerouac's sometime traveling companion and hero Neal Cassady. As Neal's wife and Kerouac's intermittent lover of Kerouac, Carolyn Cassady was well situated to record the inception of the Beat Generation and the massive cultural shift that entailed.[citation needed]
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, and documents important moments in the beat movement such as the success of On the Road and Allen Ginsberg's Howl.
References
- Darlington, Andy. "Carolyn Cassady: On and Off the Road." Moody Street Irregulars: A Jack Kerouac Magazine 24-26 (1991), 13-18.