The First Third
& Other Writings
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Author
Publication
1971 - City Lights Books, San Francisco, USA, California
Language
English
Word Count
39,250 words, Guess
Page Count
157 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL5074491M
- OCLC Control Number209487
- OCLC Control Numberfirstthirdotherw00cassrich
- Library of Congress Control Number74088229
- LibraryThing67941
Classifications
- DDC917.3
- LCCCT275.C3458 A3
Description
Kerouac's "On The Road" revolves around the charismatic Dean Moriarty. The real-life model for this character was Neal Cassady, whom Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg met in 1947 in New York. Cassady was interested in Kerouac because he wanted to be a writer, and before the end of the self-destructive Cassady's life, it happened. "The First Third" collects all of the writing Cassady is known to have produced. This volume, originally released by City Lights Books in San Francisco in 1971 (3 years after Cassady's death in Mexico) also contains an afterword by second wife Carolyn Cassady, a 46-page prologue about the Cassady family before Neal and an editor's note from poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Description
Autobiographical writing by the "hero" of Jack Kerouac's On the road.
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