Ebook {Epub PDF} Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero by David Sandison

Cassady wasn't a beat hero. He was a drug addict who destroyed himself causing untold anguish to his family and close friends. A very sad story indeed like that of Kerouac. Read it for the basic information but ignore the idolatry. Read Off the Road as well by his long suffering wife Caroline Cassady, her book sweeps away all the myth's/5(13).  · There certainly was a dark side to Cassady, which is on full display in Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero, a newish book by David Sandison and Graham Vickers. While Neal Cassady is sometimes ploddingly written, it is invaluable because the authors had access to hitherto uninterviewed family members and the full cooperation of Cassady's long suffering wife, Carolyn, a remarkable Author: Shaun Mullen.  · Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero is painstakingly researched, lovingly edited, meticulously annotated, and an insufferable bore! Seriously, being a beat fan at one time, I purchased this book back in , recently after I had purchased a new car/5(16).

There certainly was a dark side to Cassady, which is on full display in Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero, a newish book by David Sandison and Graham Vickers. While Neal Cassady is sometimes ploddingly written, it is invaluable because the authors had access to hitherto uninterviewed family members and the full cooperation of Cassady's. Neal Cassady The Fast Life of a Beat Hero. David Sandison Graham Vickers. $; $; Publisher Description. This fascinating and in-depth biography of Neal Cassady takes a look at the man who achieved immortality as Dean Moriarty, the central character in Jack Kerouac's On the Road. A charismatic, funny, articulate, and formidably. Neal Cassady achieved mythical status when Jack Kerouac turned him into Dean Moriarty, the hero of On The www.doorway.ru this major biography David Sandison and Graham Vickers trace the life of the wild man from Denver who galvanised Kerouac and the Beat Generation not by artistic endeavour but by his extravagant life-affirming behaviour and epic feats of cross-country driving.

NEAL CASSADY. The Fast Life of a Beat Hero. By David Sandison and. Graham Vickers. Illustrated. pp. Chicago Review Press. $ There certainly was a dark side to Cassady, which is on full display in Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero, a newish book by David Sandison and Graham Vickers. While Neal Cassady is sometimes ploddingly written, it is invaluable because the authors had access to hitherto uninterviewed family members and the full cooperation of Cassady's long suffering wife, Carolyn, a remarkable person in her own right who bore him three children and stood by him long after their divorce. Cassady wasn't a beat hero. He was a drug addict who destroyed himself causing untold anguish to his family and close friends. A very sad story indeed like that of Kerouac. Read it for the basic information but ignore the idolatry. Read Off the Road as well by his long suffering wife Caroline Cassady, her book sweeps away all the myth's.