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The First Third - Real Life Adventures of Jack Kerouac's Hero (Paperback, Rev. & expanded ed. together with a new prologue)
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The First Third - Real Life Adventures of Jack Kerouac's Hero (Paperback, Rev. & expanded ed. together with a new prologue)
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Immortalized as Dean Moriarty by Jack Kerouac in his epic novel, On
the Road, Neal Cassady was infamous for his unstoppable energy and
his overwhelming charm, his savvy hustle and his devil-may-care
attitude. A treasured friend and traveling companion of Kerouac,
Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Ken Kesey, to name just some
of his cohorts on the beatnik path, Cassady lived life to the
fullest, ready for inspiration at any turn. Before he died in
Mexico in 1968, just four days shy of his forty-second birthday,
Cassady had written the jacket blurb for this book: "Seldom has
there been a story of a man so balled up. No doubt many readers
will not believe the veracity of the author, but I assure these
doubting Thomases that every incident, as such, is true." As
Ferlinghetti writes in his editor's note, Cassady was "an early
prototype of the urban cowboy who a hundred years ago might have
been an outlaw on the range." Here are his autobiographical
writings, the rambling American saga of a truly free individual.
Neal Cassady (1926-1968) was a key figure and writer during the
Beat Generation and is known as the inspiration for Jack Kerouac's
immortalizing character Dean Moriarty. In 1946, Cassady traveled to
New York City where he met famous Beat poets and writers such as
Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. Cassady's
works were never published during his lifetime.
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