"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.
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