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The Joan Anderson letter : the holy grail of the beat generation
- Title
- The Joan Anderson letter : the holy grail of the beat generation / Neal Cassady ; introduction, timeline and bibliography by A. Robert Lee.
- Author
- Cassady, Neal
- Publication
- Marylebone, London : Black Spring Press Group, 2021.
- ©2021
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 21-2872 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 188 pages : portraits, facsimile, photograph; 21 cm
- Summary
- "A letter from Neal Cassady to his best friend and travelling companion Jack (On the Road) Kerouac. Kerouac received the letter from Cassady in 1950 and later told the Paris Review that it had inspired 'On the Road' along with his new literary style; referring to it as 'the greatest piece of writing I ever saw'. The energy of Cassady's fast-paced, free-flowing, confessional prose pulsates through the 15,000 word missive; bringing gloriously to life the personality of one of the most high profile figures in literary, and Beat movement, history. This incredibly illusive artefact, which describes in explicit detail his relationship with Joan Anderson ('a perfect beauty of loveliness that I forgot everything else'), had been missing for 60 years when it was discovered in an attic in Oakland, USA, in 2011. Legal machinations over its ownership ensued and it has not been published in its entirety...until now. This much-anticipated letter is now reproduced in full, with an introduction by Beat scholar Professor A. Robert Lee. This jewel of Beat history also includes a range of photographs of the writers and a rare sepia drawing of Neal by his former wife, writer and artist Carolyn Cassady" -- Goodreads.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Personal correspondence.
- Epistolary fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-165).
- Call Number
- JFD 21-2872
- ISBN
- 9781913606336
- 1913606333
- 9781913606329
- 1913606325
- LCCN
- 2020478330
- OCLC
- 1237721338
- Author
- Cassady, Neal, author.
- Title
- The Joan Anderson letter : the holy grail of the beat generation / Neal Cassady ; introduction, timeline and bibliography by A. Robert Lee.
- Publisher
- Marylebone, London : Black Spring Press Group, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-165).
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-2872