{"product_id":"neal-cassady-collected-letters-1944-1967-paperback","title":"Neal Cassady Collected Letters, 1944-1967 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNeal Cassady\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDave Moore\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eCarolyn Cassady\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeal Cassady is best remembered today as Jack Kerouac's muse and the basis for the character \"Dean Moriarty\" in Kerouac's classic \u003cb\u003eOn The Road\u003c\/b\u003e, and as one of Ken Kesey's merriest of Merry Pranksters, the driver of the psychedelic bus \"Further,\" immortalized in Tom Wolfe's \u003cb\u003eThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test\u003c\/b\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeal Cassady (1926-1968) was born on the side of the road in Salt Lake City and raised in Denver by an alcoholic father. On a trip to New York City in 1946, he encountered Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg on the campus of Columbia University, a meeting many consider the beginning of the Beat movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 490\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 7.84 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984106029357,"sku":"9780142002179","price":26.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/0Bk3EaETbY9780142002179.webp?v=1776082007","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/neal-cassady-collected-letters-1944-1967-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}