Off the Road

This memoir by the woman at the center of the Beat movement is “a great book as well as a wonderful autobiography” ( The Washington Post Book World ). Written by the woman who loved them all—as wife of Cassady, lover of Kerouac, and friend of Ginsberg—this riveting and intimate memoir spans one of the most vital eras in twentieth-century literature and culture, including the explosive successes of Kerouac’s On the Road and Ginsberg’s Howl , the flowering of the Beat movement, and the social revo