Criminal ... Saint ... Lunatic ... Genius ... Muse .... Once described by Jack Kerouac as "more like Dostoevsky than anyone I know," Neal Cassady lived what others could only write about. Serving as the model for Kerouac's frenetic hero, the hip, Noble Savage Dean Moriarty in On the Road, and "N.C., the secret hero" of Allen Ginsberg's provocative poem "Howl," Cassady was a genius of life lived on the edge of the abyss. Now, William Plummer strips away the mystery surrounding this enigmatic figure. Plummer brings Cassady to life: his coming of age in a Denver flophouse, his hustling across America, the car thefts that landed him in jail, his meeting with Kerouac and their mad-cap cross-country adventures, his experiments with sex and drugs, his second marriage to Carolyn Cassady, his teaming with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on an epochal acid trip, and finally his bizarre death. Black-and-white photographs add to this engrossing biography of an outrageous but fascinating li

The Holy Goof: A Biography of Neal Cassady

Biographies & Memoirs

Plummer, William

Arts & Literature

Prentice Hall Direct

Explores the history and current status of amateur boxing, with insights into the lure of the ring, the fighter's experience of fear, the psychology of the knockout, and a variety of related topics

Buttercups and Strong Boys (Penguin Sports Library)

Sports & Outdoors

Penguin??Books

Buttercups and Strong Boys

Viking Adult

Criminal ... Saint ... Lunatic ... Genius ... Muse .... Once described by Jack Kerouac as "more like Dostoevsky than anyone I know," Neal Cassady lived what others could only write about. Serving as the model for Kerouac's frenetic hero, the hip, Noble Savage Dean Moriarty in On the Road, and "N.C., the secret hero" of Allen Ginsberg's provocative poem "Howl," Cassady was a genius of life lived on the edge of the abyss. Now, William Plummer strips away the mystery surrounding this enigmatic figure. Plummer brings Cassady to life: his coming of age in a Denver flophouse, his hustling across America, the car thefts that landed him in jail, his meeting with Kerouac and their mad-cap cross-country adventures, his experiments with sex and drugs, his second marriage to Carolyn Cassady, his teaming with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on an epochal acid trip, and finally his bizarre death. Black-and-white photographs add to this engrossing biography of an outrageous but fascinating life.

Marlowe & Co.

Da Capo Press

An avid fly fisher shares his memoirs, beginning with the inspiration he felt while reading his late father's diary, through his efforts to learn about the sport, to his fly fishing adventures with his own son and second wife. 15,000 first printing.

Wishing My Father Well: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons and Fly-Fishing

Overlook Books

A heartfelt memoir of three generations of fathers and sons who connect through their shared love of fly-fishing. On the South Branch of the Raritan River in New Jersey, Bill Plummer casts his line in the hope that fly-fishing might fortify him in the face of a failed marriage, the death of his father, and a faltering career. Inspired by the discovery of his father's fly-fishing diary, Bill sets out to understand his father's curious allegiance to the sport and uses the diary as a point of access to what he thought was a distant and enigmatic man. As he comes to delight in the peculiar pleasures of his father's favorite pastime, he finds in it an approach to his son and the strength for a second marriage. Wishing My Father Well is a moving intergenerational memoir in the spirit of James Prosek's Joe and Me and James Dodson's Faithful Travelers that passes down the wisdom of a silent father--an unprepossessing man who was "closer to nature than the rest of us"--and opens our eyes to fly-fishing's seductive power to unite people in a shared appreciation of the majesty and serenity of nature.

Wishing My Father Well: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Fly-Fishing

The Overlook Press

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The Holy Goof: A Biography of Neal Cassady

Buttercups and Strong Boys (Penguin Sports Library)

Buttercups and Strong Boys

The Holy Goof: A Biography of Neal Cassady

The Holy Goof: A Biography of Neal Cassady

The Holy Goof: A Biography of Neal Cassady

Wishing My Father Well: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons and Fly-Fishing

Wishing My Father Well: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Fly-Fishing