![]() ![]() Neal and Carolyn bought a ranch house in Los Gatos, creating for house-guests Kerouac and Ginsberg a feeling of home and security-never mind that Neal, in order to cover for his own affairs, encouraged his wife to start one with sweet, alcoholic Kerouac. There, Neal thrived as he got a job with the Southern Pacific railroad and spent his spare time with his kids (two girls and a boy). Pregnant and in love, Carolyn learned to drop her 50's moral standards and started a life with Neal in California. Things got trickier when young Allen Ginsberg appeared on the scene and Carolyn found the young poet, Neal, and his soon-to-be-ex-bride in bed together. ![]() He walked into Carolyn's life with a child bride on his arm, but despite Carolyn's upper-middle-class reserve he managed to win her heart and a place in her bed. of Denver he was a big blond kid from a broken Denver family who, at 20, was passing himself off as a budding writer and Columbia Univ. ![]() Bennington-educated Carolyn met Neal in Denver just after WW II. Here, first-time author Carolyn Cassady offers a sincere if stilted record of her 20-year love affair/marriage with that wild American original. Neal Cassady, immortalized as a kind of amphetamine cowboy archetype in Jack Kerouac's On the Road, was, not surprisingly, a terror around his suburban ranch house. ![]()
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